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WOMAN    IN    EPIGRAM 


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WOMAN   IN   EPIGRAM 


of  TOt,  TOstoom,  anli  Satire 
from  %  lEorlo'g  ILtterature 


COMPILED   BY 

FREDERICK  W.  MORTON 


CHICAGO 

A.  C.  McCLURG  AND   COMPANY 
1894 


COPYRIGHT 
BY  A.  C.  McCLURG  AND  Co. 

A.D.    1894 


TO    WOMAN. 


I  'II  tell  thee  a  part 

Of  the  thoughts  that  start 

To  being  when  thou  art  nigh  ; 
And  thy  beauty,  more  bright 
Than  the  stars'  soft  light, 

Shall  seem  as  a  weft  from  the  sky. 

PERCY  BYSSHB  SHELLEY. 


INTRODUCTORY. 


FOR  centuries  the  mute  stone  face  of 
the  Sphinx  —  the  accepted  symbol  of 
the  unknown,  the  mysterious  —  has  looked 
out  over  the  wilderness;  and  generations 
have  puzzled  their  brains  over  her  riddle. 
But  conjecture  has  been  unavailing;  the 
secret  of  the  strange  creation  of  Egyptian 
fancy  is  undetermined. 

Woman  is  the  enigma  of  the  ages,  —  the 
world's  sphinx.  Men  always  have  been,  are, 
and  ever  will  be  guessers  of  her  secret ;  but 
after  centuries  of  thought,  all  one  finds  is 
a  mass  of  contradictory  statements,  which 
one  may  liken  to  the  sands  that  have  been 
worn  from  the  dumb  sentinel  of  the  desert. 
Woman  is  to-day  unknown,  a  creature  for 
surmise  and  speculation,  —  what  Amiel  has 
been  pleased  to  call  the  "monster  incom- 
prehensible" 


8  INTRODUCTORY. 

With  all  their  wooing  and  worshipping, 
men  have  looked  at  their  divinity  but  to 
differ  in  opinion.  Lessing  thought  God 
meant  to  make  woman  his  masterpiece, 
and  Milton  deemed  her  a  fair  defect  of 
nature  ;  Shakespeare  calls  her  another  name 
for  frailty,  and  Holmes  thinks  her  the  Mes- 
siah of  a  new  faith.  To  one  she  has  seemed 
divine,  and  to  another  satanic.  Where  shall 
we  draw  the  line  between  dangerous  ex- 
tremes? Who  shall  draw  it?  The  fabled 
mariner  who  sought  the  open  channel  be- 
tween Scylla  and  Charybdis  had  an  easy 
task  compared  with  that  of  the  sex-casuist 
of  to-day. 

Literature  is  full  of  opinions,  wise  or  other- 
wise, on  woman's  nature  and  character ;  but 
thinkers  have  been  prone,  as  the  following 
pages  show,  to  sin  on  the  side  of  panegyric 
or  of  wilful  libel.  Wherein  lie  woman's 
power  and  her  weakness?  Do  her  graces 
and  charms  make  her  a  ministering  angel  or 
an  instrument  of  evil?  Has  she  the  purity, 
the  gentleness,  the  self-sacrificing  spirit,  that 
make  her  divine,  or  is  she  the  incarnation 
of  waywardness  and  wickedness,  spite,  fickle- 
ness, folly?  One  has  but  to  search  the 


INTRODUCTORY.  9 

records  of  thought,  and  he  will  find  opinions 
to  suit  any  preconceived  notion  he  may 
entertain. 

This  little  book  advances  no  theories.  It 
simply  furnishes  the  raw  material  for  theo- 
rizing by  supplying  some  of  the  opinions  or 
guesses  of  men  about  women  and  of  women 
about  themselves.  The  reader  will  find  vari- 
ety, wit,  brilliancy,  humor,  wise  aphorisms, 
and  what  he  will  doubtless  deem  senseless,  if 
not  profane,  criticisms.  Many  times  and 
climes  are  represented,  and  many  types  of 
thought  and  fancy  expressed.  The  aim  has 
been  to  gather  together  in  convenient  form 
the  best  things  said  in  praise  or  condem- 
nation of  women;  and  the  sharp  contrasts 
afforded  will  probably  be  found  not  less 
entertaining  and  instructive  than  the  views 
advanced,  and  the  bright,  epigrammatic 
form  in  which  they  are  cast. 

Little  liberty  has  been  taken  with  the  text 
of  the  authors  quoted.  In  a  very  few  — 
perhaps  not  more  than  half  a  dozen  —  of 
the  short  passages  given,  the  word  woman, 
or  women,  has  been  substituted  for  the 
personal  pronoun  she  or  they,  to  avoid  the 
necessity  of  transcribing  half  a  page  of  con- 


10  INTRODUCTORY. 

text  that  would  be  out  of  keeping  with  the 
scope  and  purpose  of  the  book.  The  trans- 
lations are  as  literal  as  possible.  In  some 
cases  quotations  have  been  marked  anony- 
mous, because  they  have  been  culled  from 
the  great  mass  of  what  may  be  termed  float- 
ing literature,  and  their  authorship  has  been 
difficult  to  trace.  A  more  careful  search 
might  have  revealed  the  source  of  some  of 
these  passages,  but  this  would  scarcely  have 
added  to  their  worth.  Care  has  been  taken 
to  make  the  indexes  full  and  comprehensive, 
for  convenience  of  reference.  Much  that  is 
racy  will  be  found  in  the  pages  following, 
but  nothing,  it  is  thought,  that  will  be  con- 
sidered objectionable. 

That  women  have  been  carefully  inspected 
through  both  ends  of  the  telescope  will  readily 
be  seen.  The  reader  may  claim  allegiance 
to  those  who  belittle  or  those  who  glorify,  as 
he  pleases.  This  much,  however,  is  certain  : 
crown  or  crucify  his  divinity  as  he  may, 
worship  her  he  must. 

F.  W.  M. 


WOMAN   IN   EPIGRAM. 


I. 


SECOND  thoughts  are  best.  God  created 
man;  woman  was  the  afterthought. 

PROVERB. 

I  HAVE  been  ready  to  believe  that  we  have 
even  now  a  new  revelation,  and  the  name  of 
its  Messiah  is  Woman. 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

THE  whisper  of  a  beautiful  woman  can  be 
heard  farther  than  the  loudest  call  of  duty. 

ANONYMOUS. 

THROUGH  all   the   drama,  whether  damned 

or  not, 
Love  gilds  the  scene,  and  women  guide  the 

plot.  RICHARD  BRINSLEY  SHERIDAN. 

THE  man  who  enters  his  wife's  dressing- 
room  is  either  a  philosopher  or  a  fool. 

DE  BALZAC. 


12  WOMAN  /N  EPIGRAM. 

Two  women  plac'd  together  makes  cold 

weather.  WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 

A  WOMAN'S  low,  soft  sympathy 

Comes  like  an  angel's  voice  to  teach  us  how 

to  die.  EDWIN  ARNOLD. 

I  HAVE  seen  many  instances  of  women 
running  to  waste  and  self-neglect,  and  dis- 
appearing gradually  from  the  earth,  almost 
as  if  they  had  been  exhaled  to  heaven. 

WASHINGTON  IRVING. 

To  a  woman,  the  romances  she  makes  are 
more  amusing  than  those  she  reads. 

THEOPHILE  GAUTIER. 

IN  spite  of  all  the  virtue  we  can  boast, 
The  woman  that  deliberates  is  lost. 

JOSEPH  ADDISON. 

WOMEN  give  themselves  to  God  when  the 
devil  wants  nothing  more  to  do  with  them. 

SOPHIE  ARNOULD. 

SENSUALISM  intrudes  into  the  education  of 
young  women,  and  withers  the  hope  and 
affection  of  human  nature. 

RALPH  WALDO  EMERSON. 

ALL  the  reasoning  of  man  is  not  worth 
one  sentiment  of  woman. 

FRANC.OIS  MARIE  AROUET  DE  VOLTAIRE. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  13 

WHEN  an  old  crone  frolics,  she  flirts  with 
death.  PUBLIUS  SVRUS. 

THERE  never  was  in  any  age  such  a  won- 
der to  be  found  as  a  dumb  woman. 

T.  MACCIUS  PLAUTUS. 

WIVES  are  young  men's  mistresses,  com- 
panions for  middle  age,  and  old  men's 
nurses.  FRANCIS  BACON. 

TENDERNESS  has  no  deeper  source  than  the 
heart  of  a  woman,  devotion  no  purer  shrine, 
sacrifice  no  more  saint-like  abnegation. 

GERMAIN  FRANC.OIS  POULLAIN  DE  SAINT-FOIX. 

IT  is  not  for  good  women  that  men  have 
fought  battles,  given  their  lives,  and  staked 
their  souls.  MRS.  W.  K.  CLIFFORD. 

WOMAN'S  sympathies  give  a  tone,  like  the 
harp  of  ^Eolus,  to  the  slightest  breath. 

DONALD  G.  MITCHELL. 

THO'  Wisdom  oft  has  sought  me, 
I  scorn'd  the  lore  she  brought  me ; 

My  only  books 

Were  woman's  looks, 
And  folly 's  all  they  've  taught  me. 

THOMAS  MOORE. 


14  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

A  COQUETTE  is  a  woman  who  places  her 
honor  in  a  lottery;  ninety-nine  chances  to 
one  that  she  will  lose  it.  ANONYMOUS. 

OH,  why  did  God  create  at  last 
This  novelty  on  earth,  this  fair  defect 
Of  nature  ?  JOHN  MILTON. 

LADIES,  whose  love  is  constant  as  the  wind ; 
Cits,  who  prefer  a  guinea  to  mankind. 

EDWARD  YOUNG. 

THE  honor  of  woman  is  badly  guarded 
when  it  is  guarded  by  keys  and  spies.  No 
woman  is  honest  who  does  not  wish  to  be. 

ANTOINE  DUPUY. 

THE  man  that  lays  his  hand  upon  a  woman, 
save  in  the  way  of  kindness,  is  a  wretch  whom 
't  were  gross  flattery  to  name  a  coward. 

JOHN  TOBIN. 

BEAUTY  deceives  women  in  making  them 
establish  on  an  ephemeral  power  the  preten- 
sions of  a  whole  life.  SIMON  DE  BIGINCOURT. 

I  DO  not  know  that  she  was  virtuous ;  but 
she  was  ugly,  and,  with  a  woman,  that  is  half 
the  battle.  HEINRICH  HEINE. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  15 

MOST  women  caress  sin  before  embracing 
penitence. 

JEAN  GASPARD  DUBOIS-FONTANELLE. 

HEAVEN  has  no  rage  like  love  to  hatred  turned, 
Nor  hell  a  fury  like  a  woman  scorned. 

WILLIAM  CONGREVE. 

WHEN  Eve  ate  the  apple,  she  knew  she  was 
naked.  I  have  often  thought,  as  I  looked  at 
her  dancing  daughters,  that  another  bite  would 
be  of  service  to  them.  FREDERICK  SHELDON. 

WOMAN  is  a  creature  between  man  and 
the  angels.  HONORE  DE  BALZAC. 

EDUCATION  raises  many  poor  women  to  a 
stage  of  refinement  that  makes  them  suitable 
companions  for  men  of  a  higher  rank,  and 
not  suitable  for  those  of  their  own. 

WILLIAM  EDWARD  HARTPOLE  LECKY. 

ELEGANCE  of  appearance,  ornaments,  and 
dress,  —  these  are  women's  badges  of  dis- 
tinction; in  these  they  delight  and  glory. 

TITUS  LIVIUS. 

MEN  who  paint  sylphs,  fall  in  love  with 
some  bonne  et  brave  femme,  heavy-heeled 
and  freckled.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 


i6  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

WOMAN  —  the  gods  be  thanked  !  —  is  not 
even  collaterally  related  to  that  sentimental 
abstraction  called  an  angel. 

JUNIUS  HENRI  BROWNE. 

GOD  bless  all  good  women  !  To  their 
soft  hands  and  pitying  hearts  we  must  all 
come  at  last.  OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

NEITHER  education  nor  reason  gives 
women  much  security  against  the  influence 
of  example.  SAMUEL  JOHNSON. 

THE  hell  for  women  who  are  only  handsome 
is  old  age.  CHARLES  DE  SAINT-EVREMOND. 

MEN  are  women's  playthings ;  women  are 
the  devil's.  VICTOR  HUGO. 

A  WOMAN,  if  she  is  bent  on  ill,  never  goes 
begging  to  the  gardener  for  material ;  she 
has  a  garden  at  home. 

T.  MACCIUS  PLAUTUS. 

THE  woman  in  us  still  prosecutes  a  deceit 
like  that  begun  in  the  garden ;  and  our 
understandings  are  wedded  to  an  Eve  as 
fatal  as  the  mother  of  their  miseries. 

JOSEPH  GLANVILL. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  17 

AMONG  all  animals,  from  man  to  the  dog, 
the  heart-of  a  mother  is  always  a  sublime 
thing.  ALEXANDRE  DUMAS,  fire. 

THERE  are  no  ugly  women;  there  are 
only  women  who  do  not  know  how  to  look 
pretty.  ANTOINE  PIERRE  BERRYER. 

As  for  the  women,  though  we  scorn  and 
flout  'em, 

We  may  live  with,  but  cannot  live  with- 
out 'em.  JOHN  DRVDEN. 

A  WOMAN,  impudent  and  mannish  grown, 
Is  not  more  loathed  than  an  effeminate  man 
In  time  of  action.        WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 

THE  souls  of  women  are  so  small, 
That  some  believe  they  Ve  none  at  all. 

SAMUEL  BUTLER. 

WOMEN  call  repentance  the  sweet  remem- 
brance of  their  faults,  and  the  bitter  regret 
of  their  inability  to  recommence  them. 

MARQUIS  DE  BEAUMANOIR. 

A  WOMAN'S  friendship  is,  as  a  rule,  the 
legacy  of  love  or  the  alms  of  indifference. 

ANONYMOUS. 

2 


1 8  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

NOR  shall  the  poor  beauty  which  the 
mother  has  retained,  by  dint  of  being  no 
mother,  be  lovely  as  the  ruin.  LEIGH  HUNT. 

IT  is  rare  that,  after  having  given  the  key 
of  her  heart,  a  woman  does  not  change  the 
lock  the  day  after. 

CHARLES  AUGUSTIN  SAINTE-BEUVE. 

WOMEN  complain  of  the  lack  of  virtue  in 
men,  and  do  not  esteem  those  who  are  too 
strictly  virtuous.  PIERRE  JACQUES  BLONDEL. 

A  WOMAN'S  counsel  brought  us  first  to 
woe.  JOHN  DRYDEN. 

LOVE  is  woman's  teacher,  developer,  guar- 
dian. It  sheds  light  upon  her  past  as  well  as 
her  future.  Seeing  what  she  has  escaped,  she 

learns  what  to  shun. 

JUNIUS  HENRI  BROWNE. 


THE   YOUNG   GIRL'S    HEART. 

You  will  learn  later  in  life  that  the  heart 
of  a  modest,  gentle  girl  is  a  very  hard  matter 
for  even  a  brother  to  probe ;  it  is  at  once 
the  most  tender  and  the  most  unapproach- 
able of  all  fastnesses.  It  admits  feeling  by 
armies,  with  great  trains  of  artillery,  but  not  a 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  19 

single  scout.  It  is  as  calm  and  pure  as  polar 
snows ;  but  deep  underneath,  where  no  foot- 
steps have  gone,  and  where  no  eye  can  reach 
but  one,  lies  the  warm  and  the  throbbing 
earth.  Make  what  you  will  of  the  slight, 
quivering  blushes  and  of  the  half-broken 
expressions,  —  more  you  cannot  get.  The 
love  that  a  delicate- minded  girl  will  tell  is  a 
short-sighted  and  outside  love ;  but  the  love 
that  she  cherishes  without  voice  or  token  is 
a  love  that  will  mould  her  secret  sympathies 
and  her  deepest,  fondest  yearnings,  either  to 
a  quiet  world  of  joy  or  to  a  world  of  placid 
sufferance.  The  true  voice  of  her  love  she 
will  keep  back  long  and  late,  fearful  ever  of 
her  most  prized  jewel,  —  fearful  to  strange 
sensitiveness :  she  will  show  kindness,  but 
the  opening  of  the  real  floodgates  of  the 
heart  and  the  utterance  of  those  impassioned 
yearnings  which  belong  to  its  nature  come 
far  later.  That  deep,  thrilling  voice,  bear- 
ing all  the  perfume  of  the  womanly  soul  in 
its  flow,  rarely  finds  utterance ;  and  if  vainly, 
—  if  called  out  by  tempting  devices,  and  by 
a  trust  that  is  abused,  —  desolate  indeed  is 
the  maiden  heart,  widowed  of  its  chastest 
thought.  The  soul  shrinks  affrighted  within 


20  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

itself.  Like  a  tired  bird  lost  at  sea,  flutter- 
ing around  what  seem  friendly  boughs,  it 
stoops  at  length,  and  finding  only  cold,  slip- 
pery spars,  with  no  bloom  and  no  foliage, 
its  last  hope  gone,  it  sinks  to  a  wild  ocean 

grave. 

DONALD  G.  MITCHELL. 


II. 


To  love,  to  marry,  to  rear  a  family,  is  by 
no  means  an  entire  statement  of  the  obliga- 
tions and  privileges  of  women,  because  no 
woman  always  has  lover,  husband,  or  chil- 
dren ;  many  fail  to  have  all  of  them  in  suc- 
cession, and  a  few  never  have  either  of  them. 
WILLIAM  ROUNSEVILLE  ALGER. 

WOMEN  are  intellectually  more  desultory 
and  volatile  than  men ;  they  are  more  occu- 
pied with  particular  instances  than  with  gen- 
eral principles ;  they  judge  rather  by  intuitive 
perceptions  than  by  deliberate  reasoning  or 
past  experience. 

WILLIAM  EDWARD  HARTPOLE  LECKY. 

No  woman  is  too  silly  not  to  have  a  genius 
for  spite.  ANONYMOUS. 

THERE  is  no  compensation  for  the  woman 
who  feels  that  the  chief  relation  of  her  life 
has  been  a  mistake.  She  has  lost  her  crown. 

GEORGE  ELIOT. 


22  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

THERE  are  plenty  of  women  who  believe 
women  to  be  incapable  of  anything  but  to 
cook,  incapable  of  interest  in  affairs. 

RALPH  WALDO  EMERSON. 

GOSSIPING  like  crazy  old  women,  chatter- 
ing with  toothless  gums  and  silly  brains  about 
the  dreams  and  joys  of  their  youth,  yet  unable 
to  recall  one  single  thought  or  feeling  with 
that  vigor  which  once  gave  it  life  and  truth. 

MAX  MULLER. 

A  WOMAN  is  happy,  and  attains  all  that  she 
desires,  when  she  captivates  a  man ;  hence 
the  great  object  of  her  life  is  to  master  the 
art  of  captivating  men. 

COUNT  LYOF  N.  TOLSTOI. 

THE  secret  of  youthful  looks  in  an  aged 
face  is  easy  shoes,  easy  corsets,  and  an  easy 
conscience.  ANONYMOUS. 

WHO  does  not  know  the  bent  of  woman's 
fancy?  EDMUND  SPENSER. 

THE  girl  who  wakes  the  poet's  sigh  is  a 
very  different  creature  from  the  girl  who 
makes  his  soup.  FREDERICK  SHELDON. 

WOMEN  know  a  point  more  than  the  devil. 
ITALIAN  PROVERB. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  23 

You  may  chisel  a  boy  into  shape,  'as  you 
would  a  rock,  or  hammer  him  into  it,  if  he 
be  of  a  better  material,  as  you  would  a  piece 
of  bronze.  But  you  cannot  hammer  a  girl 
into  anything.  JOHN  RUSKIN. 

To  a  gentleman  every  woman  is  a  lady  in 
right  of  her  sex.  EDWARD  BULWER-LYTTON. 

DID  you  ever  hear  of  a  man's  growing  lean 
by  the  reading  of  "  Romeo  and  Juliet,"  or 
blowing  his  brains  out  because  Desdemona 
was  maligned?  OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

GREAT  women  belong  to  history  and  to 
self-sacrifice.  LEIGH  HUNT. 

IN  little  duties  women  find  their  sphere,  — 

The   narrow   cares   that   cluster   round   the 

hearth.  RICHARD  HENRY  STODDARD. 

THE  heart  of  a  coquette  is  like  a  rose,  of 
which  the  lovers  pluck  the  leaves,  leaving 

only  the  thorns  for  the  husband. 

ANONYMOUS. 

IN  our  age  women  commonly  preserve  the 
publication  of  their  good  offices  and  their 
vehement  affection  toward  their  husbands 
until  they  have  lost  them. 

MICHAEL  DE  MONTAIGNE. 


24  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

WHEN  women  cannot  be  revenged,  they 
do  as  children  do,  —  they  cry. 

JEROME  CARDAN. 

FRIENDSHIP  between  two  women  is  always 

a  plot  against  each  other. 

ALPHONSE  KARR. 

DIVERT  your  mistress,  rather  than  sigh  for 
her.  SIR  RICHARD  STEELE. 

AND  this  is  woman's  fate  : 
All  her  affections  are  called  into  life 
By  winning  flatteries,  and  then  thrown  back 
Upon  themselves  to  perish.        L.  E.  LANDON. 

THE  ever-womanly  draws  us  above. 

JOHANN  WOLFGANG  VON  GOETHE. 

I  LOVE  men,  not  because  they  are  men, 
but  because  they  are  not  women. 

QUEEN  CHRISTINA. 

FLOW,  wine  !  smile,  women  !  and  the  uni- 
verse is  consoled.  PIERRE  JEAN  BERANGER. 

OUR  good  wife  sets  up  a  sail  according  to 
the  keel  of  her  husband's  estate ;  and  if  of 
high  parentage,  she  doth  not  so  remember 
what  she  was  by  birth  that  she  forgets  what 
she  is  by  match.  THOMAS  FULLER. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  25 

WOMEN,  born  to  be  controlled, 
Stoop  to  the  forward  and  the  bold. 

EDMUND  WALLER. 

DISCRETION  is  more  necessary  to  women 
than  eloquence,  because  they  have  less 
trouble  to  speak  well  than  to  speak  little. 

FATHER  Du  Bosc. 

THERE  is  no  gown  or  garment  that  worse 
becomes  a  woman  than  when  she  will  be 
wise.  MARTIN  LUTHER. 

WOMEN  live  only  in  the  emotion  that  love 
gives.  ARSENE  HOUSSAYE. 

ON  great  occasions  it  is  almost  always 
women  who  have  given  the  strongest  proofs 
of  virtue  and  devotion.  COUNT  MONTHOLON. 

THERE  is  in  every  true  woman's  heart  a 
spark  of  heavenly  fire,  which  beams  and 
blazes  in  the  dark  hours  of  adversity. 

WASHINGTON  IRVING. 

A  WOMAN  is  never  displeased  if  we  please 
several  other  women,  provided  she  is  pre- 
ferred. It  is  so  many  more  triumphs  for 
her.  NINON  DE  LENCLOS. 

THERE  is  a  woman  at  the  beginning  of 
all  great  things.  ALPHONSE  DE  LAMARTINE. 


26  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

WOMAN  ! 

Destructive,  damnable,  deceitful  woman  ! 
THOMAS  OTWAY. 

WOMEN  prefer  us  to  say  a  little  evil  of  them, 
rather  than  to  say  nothing  of  them  at  all. 

ANTOINE  RICARD. 

ONE  syllable  of  woman's  speech  can  dis- 
solve more  of  love  than  a  man's  heart  can 
hold.  OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

WOMEN,  deceived  by  men,  want  to  marry 
them ;  it  is  a  kind  of  revenge,  as  good  as 
any  other.  MARQUIS  DE  BEAUMANOIR. 

A  WOMAN  is  seldom  tenderer  to  a  man 
than  immediately  after  she  has  deceived 
him.  ANONYMOUS. 

I  NEED  not  repeat  to  you  —  your  own 
solitude  will  suggest  it  —  that  a  masculine 
woman  is  not  strong,  but  a  lady  is.  The 
loneliest  thought,  the  purest  prayer,  is  rush- 
ing to  be  the  history  of  a  thousand  years. 
RALPH  WALDO  EMERSON. 

THE  fire  of  woman's  passion,   consuming 

the  wilderness  of  her  limitation,  rises  to  the 

pure  flame  that  has  blazed  on  every  altar  of 

Eros  between  the  Nile  and  the  Columbia. 

JUNIUS  HENRI  BROWNE. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  27 

THERE  remains  in  the  faces  of  women  who 
are  naturally  serene  and  peaceful,  and  of 
those  rendered  so  by  religion,  an  after- 
spring,  and  later,  an  after-summer,  —  the 
reflex  of  their  most  beautiful  bloom. 

JEAN  PAUL  RICHTER. 

FRAILTY  !  thy  name  is  woman. 

WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 

THE  tears  of  a  young  widow  lose  their 
bitterness  when  wiped  by  the  hands  of  love. 

ANONYMOUS. 

SHE  could  not  reconcile  the  anxieties  of 
spiritual  life,  involving  eternal  consequences, 
with  a  keen  interest  in  gimp  and  artificial 
protrusions  of  drapery.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

VENUS  herself,  if  she  were  bald,  would  not 
be  Venus.  APULEIUS. 

WOMEN  often  deceive  to  conceal  what 
they  feel ;  men,  to  simulate  what  they  do 
not  feel,  —  love.  ERNEST  WILFRID  LEGOUVE. 

WOMEN  are  the  happiest  beings  of  the 
creation ;  in  compensation  for  our  services 
they  reward  us  with  a  happiness  of  which 
they  retain  more  than  half. 

BERNARD  DE  VARENNES. 


28  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

PSYCHE  discovered  her  beauty  in  a  quiet 
pool  of  water ;  and  the  first  peep  into  Na- 
ture's mirror  was  the  birth  of  vanity. 

FREDERICK  W.  MORTON. 

WOMAN  seldom  hesitates  to  sacrifice  the 
honest  man  who  loves  her  without  pleasing 
her,  to  the  libertine  who  pleases  her  without 
loving  her.  ANTOINE  RICARD. 

A  WOMAN'S  power  lies  in  her  petticoats,  as 
Samson's  strength  lay  in  his  hair ;  cut  them 
off,  and  you  leave  her  at  the  mercy  of  every 
brutal  Philistine  who  now  dares  not  be  rude 
to  her  because  she  is  sacred. 

FREDERICK  SHELDON. 

EARTH'S  noblest  thing,  a  woman  perfected. 
JAMES  RUSSELL  LOWELL. 

WHAT   could   a   woman's   head   contrive, 
which  she  would  not  know  how  to  excuse  ? 
GOTTHOLD  EPHRAIM  LESSING. 


REVELATION    IN  WOMEN'S   FACES. 

Now,  among  the  visible  objects  which 
hint  to  us  fragments  of  this  infinite  secret 
for  which  our  souls  are  waiting,  the  faces  of 
women  are  those  that  carry  the  most  legible 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  29 

hieroglyphics  of  the  great  mystery.  There 
are  women's  faces,  some  real,  some  ideal, 
which  contain  something  in  them  that  be- 
comes a  positive  element  in  our  creed,  so 
direct  and  palpable  a  revelation  is  it  of  the 
infinite  purity  and  love.  I  remember  two 
faces  of  women  with  wings,  such  as  they 
call  angels,  of  Fra  Angelico,  —  and  I  just 
now  came  across  a  print  of  Raphael's  Santa 
Apollina,  with  something  of  the  same  qual- 
ity, —  which  I  was  sure  had  their  prototypes 
in  the  world  above  ours.  No  wonder  the 
Catholics  pay  their  vows  to  the  Queen  of 
Heaven  !  The  unpoetical  side  of  Protestant- 
ism is,  that  it  has  no  women  to  be  worshipped. 
But  mind  you,  it  is  not  every  beautiful  face 
that  hints  the  Great  Secret  to  us,  nor  is  it 
only  in  beautiful  faces  that  we  find  traces  of 
it.  Sometimes  it  looks  out  from  a  sweet 
sad  eye,  the  only  beauty  of  a  plain  counte- 
nance ;  sometimes  there  is  so  much  meaning 
in  the  lips  of  a  woman,  not  otherwise  fasci- 
nating, that  we  know  they  have  a  message 
for  us,  and  wait  almost  with  awe  to  hear  their 
accents.  But  this  young  girl  has  at  once  the 
beauty  of  feature  and  the  outspoken  mystery 
of  expression.  Can  she  tell  me  anything? 


30  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

Is  her  life  a  complement  of  mine,  with  the 
missing  element  in  it  which  I  have  been 
groping  after  through  so  many  friendships 
that  I  have  tired  of,  and  through  —  Hush  ! 
Is  the  door  fast?  Talking  loud  is  a  bad 
trick  in  these  curious  boarding-houses. 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 


III. 

As  soon  as  women  are  ours,  we  are  no 
longer  theirs.  MICHAEL  DE  MONTAIGNE. 

A  WOMAN  laughs  when  she  can,  and  weeps 
when  she  will.  PROVERB. 

WOMAN  may  complain  to  God,  as  subjects 
do  of  tyrant  princes ;  but  otherwise  she  hath 
no  appeal  in  the  causes  of  unkind  ness. 

JEREMY  TAYLOR. 

A  BACHELOR  seeks  a  wife  to  avoid  solitude  ; 
a  married  man  seeks  society  to  avoid  a  tete- 
a-tete.  BERNARD  DE  VARENNES. 

NAY,  certainly,  I  know  the  ways  of  women  ; 
they  won't  when  thou  wilt,  and  when  thou 
won't  they  are  passionately  fond. 

P.  TERENTIUS  AFER. 

HONOR  to  women  !     To  them  it  is  given 
To  garden  the  earth  with  the  roses  of  heaven. 
FRIEDRICH  VON  SCHILLER. 

SILENCE  and  blushing  are  the  eloquence 
of  women.  CHINESE  PROVERB. 


32  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

I  'VE   seen   your   stormy   seas   and    stormy 

women, 
And  pity  lovers  rather  more  than  seamen. 

LORD  BYRON. 

A  WOMAN  who  has  not  seen  her  lover  for 
the  whole  day  considers  that  day  lost  for 
her ;  the  tenderest  of  men  considers  it  only 
lost  for  love.  MADAME  DE  SALM. 

THE  revolution  the  Boston  boys  started 
had  to  run  in  woman's  milk  before  it  ran  in 
man's  blood.  OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

WOMEN  swallow  at  one  mouthful  the  lie 
that  flatters,  and  drink  drop  by  drop  the 
truth  that  is  bitter.  DENIS  DIDEROT. 

A  SHAMELESS  woman  is  the  worst  of  men. 

EDWARD  YOUNG. 

THERE  has  been  no  church,  however  super- 
stitious, that  has  not  been  adorned  by  many 
Christian  women  devoting  their  entire  lives 
to  assuaging  the  sufferings  of  men. 

WILLIAM  EDWARD  HARTPOLE  LECKY. 

I  DARE  say  she  's  like  the  rest  of  the  women, 
—  thinks  two  and  two  '11  come  to  make  five, 
if  she  cries  and  bothers  enough  about  it. 

GEORGE  ELIOT. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  33 

WE  need  the  friendship  of  a  man  in  great 
trials,  of  a  woman  in  the  affairs  of  every- day 
life.  ANTOINE  LEONARD  THOMAS. 

THERE  never  were  so  many  morally  baf- 
fled, uneasy,  and  complaining  women  on  the 
earth  as  now,  because  never  before  did  the 
capacities  of  intelligence  and  affection  so 
greatly  exceed  their  gratification. 

WILLIAM  ROUNSEVILLE  ALGER. 

WOMEN  never  reason ;  or,  if  they  do,  they 
either  draw  correct  inferences  from  wrong 
premises  or  wrong  inferences  from  correct 
premises ;  and  they  always  poke  the  fire 
from  the  top.  BISHOP  RICHARD  WHATELY. 

How  can  one  who  hates  men  love  a  woman 
without  blushing?  JEAN  PAUL  RICHTER. 

IN  the  highest  society,  as  well  as  in  the 
lowest,  woman  is  merely  an  instrument  of 
pleasure.  COUNT  LYOF  N.  TOLSTOI. 

THOSE  females  who  cry  out  loudest  against 
the  flightiness  of  their  sisters,  and  rebuke 
their  undue  encouragement  of  this  man  or 
that,  would  do  as  much  themselves  if  they 
had  the  chance. 

WILLIAM  MAKEPEACE  THACKERAY. 
3 


34  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

WOMEN  know  at  first  sight  the  character 
of  those  with  whom  they  converse.  There 
is  much  to  give  them  a  religious  height  to 
which  men  do  not  attain. 

RALPH  WALDO  EMERSON. 

WOMEN  see  through  and  through  each 
other ;  and  often  we  most  admire  her  whom 
they  most  scorn.  CHARLES  BUXTON. 

WOMAN  is  a  miracle  of  divine  contradictions. 
JULES  MICHELET. 

BEFORE  going  to  war  say  a  prayer ;  before 
going  to  sea  say  two  prayers ;  before  marrying 
say  three  prayers.  PROVERB. 

ONE  should  choose  for  a  wife  only  such  a 
woman  as  he  would  choose  for  a  friend,  were 
she  a  man.  JOSEPH  JOUBERT. 

WOMAN  is  a  fickle  and  changeful  thing. 

P.  VIRGILIUS  MARO. 

To  educate  a  man  is  to  form  an  individual 
who  leaves  nothing  behind  him ;  to  educate 
a  woman  is  to  form  future  generations. 

EDOUARD  RENE  LEFEBURE  LABOULAYE. 

THERE  are  no  women  to  whom  virtue 
comes  easier  than  those  who  possess  no 
attractions.  ANONYMOUS. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  35 

IN  courting  women,  many  dry  wood  for  a 
fire  that  will  not  burn  for  them. 

HONORS  DE  BALZAC. 

"  MOST  women  have  no  characters  at  all,"  — 
Matter  too  soft  a  lasting  mark  to  bear. 

ALEXANDER  POPE. 

IT  is  no  more  possible  to  do  without  a 
wife  than  it  is  to  dispense  with  eating  and 
drinking.  MARTIN  LUTHER. 

GOD  created  the  coquette  as  soon  as  he 
had  made  the  fool.  VICTOR  HUGO. 

THE  sweetest  thing  in  life  is  the  unclouded 
welcome  of  a  wife. 

NATHANIEL  PARKER  WILLIS. 

WHO  to  a  woman  trusts  his  peace  of  mind 
Trusts  a  frail  bark  with  a  tempestuous  wind. 
GEORGE  GRANVILLE. 

TRUST  not  a  woman,  even  when  dead. 

LATIN  PROVERB. 

I  HAVE  seen  more  than  one  woman  drown 
her  honor  in  the  clear  water  of  diamonds. 

COMTESSE  D'HOUDETOT. 

IN  all  eras  and  all  climes  a  woman  of 
great  genius  or  beauty  has  done  what  she 
chose.  OUIDA. 


36  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

HE  that  hath  wife  and  children  hath  given 
hostages  to  fortune ;  for  they  are  impedi- 
ments to  great  enterprises,  either  of  virtue 
or  mischief.  FRANCIS  BACON. 

A  WOMAN  would  be  in  despair  if  Na- 
ture had  formed  her  as  fashion  makes  her 
appear.  MLLE.  DE  LESPINASSE. 

THE  resistance  of  a  woman  is  not  always 
a  proof  of  her  virtue,  but  more  frequently  of 
her  experience.  NINON  DE  LENCLOS. 

WHAT  a  wilful,  wayward  thing  is  woman  ! 
Even  in  their  best  pursuits  so  loose  of  soul 
that  every  breath  of  passion  shakes  their 
frame.  PHILIP  FRANCIS. 

THE  love  of  woman  is  universally  for  one 
man.  Even  though  degraded,  half-unsexed, 
outcast,  abandoned  to  despair,  she  inflex- 
ibly seeks  her  individual  own. 

JUNIUS  HENRI  BROWNE. 

IMPERIOUS  Venus  is  less  potent  than  caress- 
ing Venus.  ANONYMOUS. 

THE  clown  knows  very  well  that  the  women 
are  not  in  love  with  him,  but  with  Hamlet, 
the  fellow  in  the  black  cloak  and  plumed 
hat.  OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  37 

Do  you  not  know  I  am  a  woman  ?  when  I 

think,  I  must  speak. 

WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 

WOMEN,  asses,  and  nuts  require  strong 
hands.  ITALIAN  PROVERB. 

WOMAN  sends  forth  her  sympathies  on 
adventure.  She  embarks  her  whole  soul  in 
the  traffic  of  affection ;  and  if  shipwrecked, 
her  case  is  hopeless.  WASHINGTON  IRVING. 

GOD  !  she  is  like  a  milk-white  lamb,  that  bleats 
For  man's  protection.  JOHN  KEATS. 

A  WOMAN  is  sometimes  fugitive,  irrational, 
indeterminable,  illogical,  and  contradictory. 
A  great  deal  of  forbearance  ought  to  be 
shown  her.  HENRI  FR£D£RIC  AMIEL. 

WHAT  a  strange  illusion  it  is  to  suppose 
that  beauty  is  goodness  !  A  beautiful  woman 
utters  absurdities ;  we  listen,  and  we  hear 
not  the  absurdities,  but  wise  thoughts. 

COUNT  LYOF  N.  TOLSTO!. 

WOMAN  made  for  man,  —  beautiful, 
touching  truth,  suited  to  an  age  of  female 
degradation  !  WILLIAM  ELLERY  CHANNING. 


38  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

You  will  find  a  tulip  of  a  woman  to  be  in 
fashion  when  a  little  humble  violet  or  daisy 
of  creation  is  passed  over  without  remark. 

WILLIAM  MAKEPEACE  THACKERAY. 

JUST  so  much  respect  as  a  woman  derogates 
from  her  own  sex,  in  whatever  condition 
placed,  —  her  handmaid  or  dependant,  — 
she  deserves  to  have  diminished  from  her- 
self on  that  score.  CHARLES  LAMB. 

HAVE  women,  conscious  of  inferior  strength, 
woven  this  notion  of  mystery  about  themselves 
as  a  defence,  or  have  men  simply  idealized 
them  for  fictitious  purposes  ? 

CHARLES  DUDLEY  WARNER. 

FADED  beauties  have  this  in  common  with 
time-stained  abbeys  and  other  architectural 
ruins,  —  they  show  to  the  best  advantage  in 

moonlight  effects. 

FREDERICK  W.  MORTON. 


WIVES  AND   HUSBANDS. 

SELFISH  husbands  have  this  advantage  in 
maintaining  with  easy-minded  wives  a  rigid 
and  inflexible  behavior ;  namely,  that  if  they 
do  by  any  chance  grant  a  little  favor,  the 
ladies  receive  it  with  such  transports  of  grati- 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  39 

tude  as  they  would  never  think  of  showing  to 
a  lord  and  master  who  was  accustomed  to  give 
them  everything  they  asked  for.  .  .  .  Look 
through  the  world,  respectable  reader,  and 
among  your  honorable  acquaintances,  and 
say  if  this  sort  of  faith  in  women  is  not  very 
frequent.  They  will  believe  in  their  hus- 
bands, whatever  the  latter  do.  Let  John  be 
dull,  ugly,  vulgar,  and  a  humbug,  his  Mary 
Ann  never  finds  it  out ;  let  him  tell  his  sto- 
ries ever  so  many  times,  there  is  she  always 
ready  with  her  kind  smile ;  let  him  be  stingy, 
she  says  he  is  prudent ;  let  him  quarrel  with 
his  best  friend,  she  says  he  is  always  in  the 
right ;  let  him  be  prodigal,  she  says  he  is 
generous,  and  that  his  health  requires  enjoy- 
ment ;  let  him  be  idle,  he  must  have  relaxa- 
tion; and  she  will  pinch  herself  and  her 
household,  that  he  may  have  a  guinea  for 
his  club.  Yes ;  and  every  morning,  as  she 
wakes  and  looks  into  the  face  snoring  on 
the  pillow  by  her  side,  —  every  morning,  I 
say,  she  blesses  that  dull,  ugly  countenance, 
and  the  dull,  ugly  soul  reposing  there,  and 
thinks  both  are  something  divine.  I  want 
to  know  how  it  is  that  women  do  not  find 
out  their  husbands  to  be  humbugs.  Nature 


40  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

has  so  provided  it,  and  thanks  to  her.  When 
last  year  they  were  acting  the  "  Midsummer 
Night's  Dream,"  and  all  the  boxes  began  to 
roar  with  great  coarse  hee-haws  at  Titania 
hugging  Bottom's  long,  long  ears,  —  to  me, 
considering  these  things,  it  seemed  that  there 
were  a  hundred  other  male  brutes  squatting 
round  about,  and  treated  just  as  reasonably 
as  Bottom  was.  Their  Titanias  lulled  them 
to  sleep  in  their  laps,  summoned  a  hundred 
smiling,  delicate  household  fairies  to  tickle 
their  gross  intellects  and  minister  to  their 
vulgar  pleasures ;  and  (as  the  above  remarks 
are  only  supposed  to  apply  to  honest  women 
loving  their  own  lawful  spouses)  a  mercy  it 
is  that  no  wicked  Puck  is  in  the  way  to  open 
their  eyes,  and  point  out  their  folly. 

WILLIAM  MAKEPEACE  THACKERAY. 


IV. 

THE  best  woman  is  the  one  least  talked 
about.  FRIEDRICH  VON  SCHILLER. 

IN  this  advanced  century  a  girl  of  sixteen 
knows  as  much  as  her  mother,  and  enjoys 
her  knowledge  much  more.  ANONYMOUS. 

IN  love,  a  woman  is  like  a  lyre  that  sur- 
renders its  secrets  only  to  the  hand  that 
knows  how  to  touch  its  strings. 

DE  BALZAC. 


WHETHER  sunn'd  in  the  tropics  or  chilFd  at 

the  pole, 
If  woman  be  there,  there  is  happiness  too. 

THOMAS  MOORE. 

A  WOMAN  is  most  merciless  when  shame 
goads  on  her  hate. 

DECIMUS  JUNIUS  JUVENALIS. 

MEN  say   knowledge   is   power;    women 
think  dress  is  power.      FREDERICK  SHELDON. 


42  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

NAY,  women  are  frail  too. 
Ay,  as   the    glasses  where  they  view  them- 
selves ; 

Which  are  as  easy  broke  as  they  make  forms. 
WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 

SHE  is  the  most  virtuous  woman  whom 
Nature  has  made  the  most  voluptuous,  and 
reason  the  coldest.  LA  BEAUMELLE. 

FOR  one  woman  who  affronts  her  kind  by 
wicked  passions  or  remorseless  hate,  a  thou- 
sand make  amends  in  age  and  youth. 

CHARLES  MACKAY. 

To  a  woman  of  delicate  feeling,  the  most 
persuasive  declaration  of  love  is  the  embar- 
rassment of  an  intellectual  man. 

NICOLAS  VALENTIN  DE  LATENA. 

A  COQUETTE  is  to  a  man  what  a  toy  is  to  a 
child ;  as  long  as  it  pleases  him  he  keeps  it. 

ANONYMOUS. 

WHEN  a  woman  once  begins  to  be  ashamed 
of  what  she  ought  not  to  be  ashamed  of,  she 
will  not  be  ashamed  of  what  she  ought. 

TITUS  LIVIUS. 

FRIEND,  beware  of  fair  maidens  !  When 
their  tenderness  begins,  our  servitude  is 
near.  VICTOR  HUGO. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  43 

A  PRETTY  woman  's  worth  some  pains  to 
see.  ROBERT  BROWNING. 

THOU  art  a  woman. 
And  that   is  saying  the    best  and  worst   of 

thee.  PHILIP  JAMES  BAILEY. 

THAT  perfect  disinterestedness  and  self, 
devotion  of  which  man  seems  incapable,  but 
which  is  sometimes  found  in  women. 

THOMAS  BABINGTON  MACAULAY. 

WOMEN  distrust  men  too  much  in  general, 
and  not  enough  in  particular. 

PHILIBERT  COMMERSON. 

EVEN  when  fortunate,  woman  scarcely 
breathes  it  to  herself;  but  when  otherwise, 
she  buries  it  in  the  recesses  of  her  bosom, 
and  there  lets  it  cower  and  brood  among  the 
ruins  of  her  peace.  WASHINGTON  IRVING. 

IF  you  wish  a  coquette  to  regard  you, 
cease  to  regard  her.  ANONYMOUS. 

THERE  are  twenty- four  hours  in  a  day,  and 
not  a  moment  in  the  twenty-four  in  which  a 
woman  may  not  change  her  mind. 

J.  DE  FINOD. 

MOST  women  are  better  out  of  their  houses 
than  in  them.  TACITUS. 


44  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

How  many  women  are  born  too  finely 
organized  in  sense  and  soul  for  the  highway 
they  must  walk  with  feet  unshod  ! 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

THE  world  was  sad ;  the  garden  was  a  wild  ! 

And   man,    the   hermit,  sigh'd — till  woman 

smiled.  THOMAS  CAMPBELL. 

WOMEN  are  rakes  by  nature  and  prudes 
from  necessity. 

FRANCOIS  DE  LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

WHAT  means  did  the  devil  find  out,  or 
what  instrument  did  his  own  subtlety  present 
him,  as  fittest  and  aptest  to  work  his  mis- 
chief by  ?  —  Even  the  unquiet  vanity  of  the 
woman.  SIR  WALTER  RALEIGH. 

AN  obscure  mist  of  sighs  exhales  out  of 
the  solitude  of  women  in  the  nineteenth 
century.  WILLIAM  ROUNSEVILLE  ALGER. 

THE  position  that  was  gradually  assigned 
to  the  Virgin  as  the  female  ideal  in  the 
belief  and  the  devotion  of  Christendom, 
was  a  consecration  or  an  expression  of  the 
new  value  that  was  attached  to  the  female 

virtues. 

WILLIAM  EDWARD  HARTPOLE  LECKY. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  45 

IF  a  woman  's  young  and  pretty,  I  think 
you  can  see  her  good  looks  all  the  better  for 
her  being  plainly  dressed.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

THE  first  thing  men  think  of,  when  they 
love,  is  to  exhibit  their  usefulness  and  ad- 
vantages to  the  object  of  their  affection. 
Women  make  light  of  these,  asking  only 
love.  RALPH  WALDO  EMERSON. 

A  MAN  is  in  general  better  pleased  when 
he  has  a  good  dinner  than  when  his  wife 
talks  Greek.  SAMUEL  JOHNSON. 

WOMAN  delights  in  the  pure  and  noble; 
she  brooks  the  ignoble  and  gross. 

FREDERICK  W.  MORTON. 

MEN  say  more  evil  of  women  than  they 
think ;  it  is  the  contrary  with  women  toward 
men.  S.  DUBAY. 

A  WOMAN'S  rank  lies  in  the  fulness  of  her 
womanhood ;  therein  alone  she  is  royal. 

GEORGE  ELIOT. 

THE  deceit  of  priests  and  the  cunning  of 
women  surpass  all  else. 

GOTTFRIED  AUGUST  BURGER. 

NOTHING  is  better  than  a  good  wife ;  and 
nothing  is  worse  than  a  bad  one,  who  is  fond 
of  gadding  about.  HESIOD. 


46  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

WOMAN  often  dies  for  love,  as  spotless 
maidens  have  died  to  live  forever  in  the 
Pantheon  of  sentiment. 

JUNIUS  HENRI  BROWNE. 

LOVE,  that  is  but  an  episode  in  the  life  of 
man,  is  the  entire  story  of  the  life  of  woman. 

MME.  DE  STAEL. 

WOMEN,  priests,  and  poultry  have  never 
enough.  PROVERB. 

WOMAN  is  too  soft  to  hate  permanently ; 
even  if  a  hundred  men  have  been  a  grief  to 
her,  she  will  still  love  the  hundred  and  first. 
JOHANN  GOTTFRIED  KINKEL. 

VIRTUE  with  some  women  is  but  the  pre- 
caution of  locking  doors. 

PIERRE  EDOUARD  LEMONTEY. 

YOUR  true  flirt  has  a  coarse-grained  soul ; 
well  modulated  and  well  tutored,  but  there 
is  no  fineness  in  it.  DONALD  G.  MITCHELL. 

A  WOMAN  needs  a  stronger  head  than  her 
own  for  counsel ;  she  should  marry. 

PEDRO  CALDERON  DE  LA  BARCA. 

THERE  are  Florence  Nightingales  of  the 
ball-room,  whom  nothing  can  hold  back 
from  their  errands  of  mercy. 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  47 

WOMEN  are  in  the  moral  world  what 
flowers  are  in  the  physical. 

PIERRE  SYLVAIN  MARECHAL. 

WOMAN  sees  deep ;  man  sees  far.  To  the 
man  the  world  is  his  heart ;  to  the  woman 
the  heart  is  her  world. 

CHRISTIAN  DIETRICH  GRABBE. 

A  WOMAN  by  whom  we  are  loved  is  a  vanity ; 
a  woman  whom  we  love  is  a  religion. 

SMILE  DE  GIRARDIN. 

WOMAN  's  at  best  a  contradiction  still. 

ALEXANDER  POPE. 

WHEN  a  wrong  idea  possesses  a  woman, 
much  bitterness  flows  from  her  tongue, 

EURIPIDES. 

HE  who  trusts  women  ploughs  the  wind, 
sows  on  the  barren  sea,  finds  not  the  bottom 
of  the  hidden  ocean,  writes  his  recollections 
in  the  snow,  draws  water,  like  the  Danaides, 
with  pitchers  full  of  holes.  PAUL  FLEMMING. 

MARRIAGE  communicates  to  women  the 
vices  of  men,  but  never  their  virtues. 

FRANC.OIS  CHARLES  MARIE  FOURIER. 

WOMAN'S  cause  is  man's ;  they  rise  or  sink 
Together,  dwarfed  or  godlike,  bond  or  free. 

ALFRED  TENNYSON. 


48  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

IN  love,  the  confidant  of  a  woman's  sorrow 

often  becomes  the  consoler  of  it. 

ANONYMOUS. 

A  ROYAL  court  without  women  is  like  a 
year  without  spring,  a  spring  without  flowers. 
FRANCIS  I.  OF  FRANCE. 

A  WOMAN  full  of  faith  in  the  one  she  loves 
is  but  a  novelist's  fancy. 

HONOR^  DE  BALZAC. 

THEOLOGIANS  deplore  Eve's  taste  and  appe- 
tite, but  philosophers  give  her  a  vote  of 
thanks.  If  she  had  n't  bitten  that  apple  in 
the  garden,  we  should  all,  save  beggars  and 
tramps,  be  out  of  a  job. 

FREDERICK  W.  MORTON. 


WOMAN'S  EMANCIPATION. 

I  THOUGHT  I  stood  on  the  border  of  a 
great  desert,  and  the  sand  blew  about  every- 
where. And  I  thought  I  saw  two  great 
figures  like  beasts  of  burden  of  the  desert, 
and  one  lay  upon  the  sand  with  its  neck 
stretched  out,  and  one  stood  by  it.  And  I 
looked  curiously  at  the  one  that  lay  upon  the 
ground,  for  it  had  a  great  burden  on  its 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  49 

back,  and  the  sand  was  thick  about  it,  so 
that  it  seemed  to  have  piled  over  it  for  cen- 
turies. .  .  .  And  I  said :  "  Why  does  she  lie 
here  motionless,  with  the  sand  piled  round 
her?"  And  he  answered:  "Listen;  I  will 
tell  you.  Ages  and  ages  long  she  has  lain 
here,  and  the  wind  has  blown  over  her.  The 
oldest,  oldest,  oldest  man  living  has  never 
seen  her  move ;  the  oldest,  oldest  book  re- 
cords that  she  lay  here  then,  as  she  lies  here 
now,  with  the  sand  about  her.  But  listen ! 
Older  than  the  oldest  book,  older  than  the 
oldest  recorded  memory  of  man,  on  the 
Rock  of  Language,  on  the  hard-baked  clay 
of  Ancient  Customs,  now  crumbling  to  de- 
cay, are  found  the  marks  of  her  footsteps  ! 
Side  by  side  with  his  who  stands  beside  her 
you  may  trace  them ;  and  you  know  that  she 
who  now  lies  there  once  wandered  free  over 
the  rocks  with  him.  ...  I  take  it,  ages  ago 
the  Age-of-dominion-of-muscular-force  found 
her,  and  when  she  stooped  low  to  give  suck 
to  her  young,  and  her  back  was  broad,  he 
put  his  burden  of  subjection  on  to  it,  and 
tied  it  on  with  the  broad  band  of  Inevitable 
Necessity.  Then  she  looked  at  the  earth 
and  the  sky,  and  knew  there  was  no  hope  for 
4 


50  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

her ;  and  she  lay  down  on  the  sand  with  the 
burden  she  could  not  loosen.  Ever  since 
she  has  lain  here."  .  .  .  And  I  heard  some- 
thing crackling,  and  I  looked,  and  I  saw  the 
band  that  bound  the  burden  on  to  her  back 
broken  asunder,  and  the  burden  rolled  on  to 
the  ground.  And  I  said,  "What  is  this?" 
And  he  said :  "The  Age-of-muscular-force  is 
dead.  The  Age-of- nervous- force  has  killed 
him  with  the  knife  he  holds  in  his  hand ; 
and  silently  and  invisibly  he  has  crept  up  to 
the  woman,  and  with  that  knife  of  Mechan- 
ical Invention  he  has  cut  the  band  that 
bound  the  burden  to  her  back.  The  Inev- 
itable Necessity  is  broken.  She  might  rise 
now."  And  she  threw  from  her  gladly  the 
mantle  of  Anciently- received-opinions  she 
wore,  for  it  was  full  of  holes.  And  she  took 
the  girdle  from  her  waist  that  she  had  treas- 
ured so  long,  and  the  moths  flew  out  of  it  in 
a  cloud.  And  he  said  :  "  Take  the  shoes  of 
Dependence  off  your  feet."  And  she  stood 
there  naked,  but  for  the  one  white  garment 
that  clung  close  to  her. 

OLIVE  SCHREINER. 


V. 


HAS  a  woman  obeyed  the  impulse  of  un- 
erring nature,  society  declares  war  against 
her,  —  pitiless  and  eternal  war.  She  must  be 
the  tame  slave ;  she  must  make  no  reprisals. 
Theirs  is  the  right  of  persecution ;  hers  the 
duty  of  endurance.  PERCY  BYSSHE  SHELLEY. 

WOMEN  of  forty  always  fancy  they  have 
found  the  Fountain  of  Youth,  and  that  they 
remain  young  in  the  midst  of  the  rums  of 
their  day.  ARSENE  HOUSSAYE. 

DISGUISE  our  bondage  as  we  will, 
'T  is  woman,  woman  rules  us  still. 

THOMAS  MOORE. 

THE  perfect  loveliness  of  a  woman's  coun- 
tenance can  only  consist  in  that  majestic 
peace  which  is  founded  in  the  memory  of 
happy  and  useful  years,  full  of  sweet  records. 

JOHN  RUSKIN. 

TRUST  your  dog  to  the  end ;  a  woman  — 
till  the  first  opportunity.  PROVERB. 


52  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

GALLANTRY  to  women  (the  sure  road  to 
their  favor)  is  nothing  but  the  appearance 
of  extreme  devotion  to  all  their  wants  and 
wishes,  a  delight  in  their  satisfaction,  and  a 
confidence  in  yourself  as  being  able  to  con- 
tribute toward  it.  WILLIAM  HAZLITT. 

IN  mythology,  no  god  falls  in  love  with 
Minerva.  A  mannish  woman  only  attracts  a 
feminine  man.  FREDERICK  SHELDON. 

WOMEN  have  the  same  desires  as  men,  but 
do  not  have  the  same  right  to  express  them. 
JEAN  JACQUES  ROUSSEAU. 

YOUTH  feeds  on  its  own  flowery  pastures ; 
in  pleasures  it  builds  up  a  life  that  knows  no 
trouble  till  the  name  of  virgin  is  lost  in  that 
of  wife.  SOPHOCLES. 

A  WOMAN  cannot  guarantee  her  heart,  even 
though  her  husband  be  the  greatest  and  most 
perfect  of  men.  GEORGE  SAND. 

IT  is  born  in  maidens  that  they  should 
wish  to  please  everything  that  has  eyes. 

JOHANN    WlLHELM   LUDWIG   GLEIM. 

THE  woman  who  throws  herself  at  a  man's 
head  will  soon  find  her  place  at  his  feet. 

Louis  CLAUDE  JOSEPH  DESNOYERS. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  53 

WOMEN  and  wine,  game  and  deceit,  make 
the  wealth  small  and  the  wants  great. 

PROVERB. 

I  CONFESS  I  like  the  quality  ladies  better 
than  the  common  kind  even  of  literary  ones. 
OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

WOMEN  sometimes  deceive  the  lover, — 
never  the  friend.  LOUIS  S^BASTIEN  MERCIER. 

You  see  in  no  place  of  conversation  the 
perfection  of  speech  so  much  as  in  accom- 
plished women.  SIR  RICHARD  STEELE. 

A  FAN  is  indispensable  to  a  woman  who 
can  no  longer  blush.  ANONYMOUS. 

HER  voice  was  ever  soft, 
Gentle,  and   low,  —  an   excellent   thing   in 
woman.  WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 

A  TIMOROUS  woman  drops  into  her  grave 
before  she  is  done  deliberating. 

JOSEPH  ADDISON. 

IT  is  much  worse  to  irritate  an  old  woman 
than  a  dog.  MENANDER. 

THERE  are  women  so  hard  to  please  that 
it  seems  as  if  nothing  less  than  an  angel  will 
suit  them ;  hence  it  comes  that  they  often 
meet  with  devils.  MARGUERITE  DE  VALOIS. 


54  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

WOMAN    is    a    charming    creature,    who 
changes  her  heart  as  easily  as  her  gloves. 
HONOR£  DE  BALZAC. 

WITHOUT  the  smile  from  partial  beauty  won, 

Oh,  what  were  man?  —  A  world  without  a 

sun.  THOMAS  CAMPBELL. 

WOMEN  who  have  lost  their  faith 
Are  angels  who  have  lost  their  wings. 

DR.  WALTER  SMITH. 

WOMEN  go  further  in  love  than  most 
men,  but  men  go  further  in  friendship  than 
women.  JEAN  DE  LA  BRUYERE. 

WOMAN'S  function  is  a  guiding,  not  a  de- 
termining one.  JOHN  RUSKIN. 

AT  first  woman  fosters  our  dearest  hopes 
with  the  affection  of  a  mother ;  then  like  a 
giddy  hen  she  forsakes  the  nest. 

JOHANN  WOLFGANG  VON  GOETHE. 

THE  most  chaste  woman  may  be  the  most 
voluptuous  if  she  loves. 

HONORS  GABRIEL  DE  RIQUETTE  MIRABEAU. 

WOMAN'S  heart  is  just  like  a  lithographer's 
stone,  —  what  is  once  written  upon  it  cannot 
be  nibbed  out. 

WILLIAM  MAKEPEACE  THACKERAY. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  55 

SHE,  while   Apostles   shrank,    could   danger 

brave, — 
Last  at  his  cross,  and  earliest  at  his  grave. 

EATON  STANNARD  BARRETT. 

THE  lives  of  a  multitude  of  women  all 
around  us  contain  a  large  element  of  unsuc- 
cessful outward  or  inward  ambitions,  —  vain 
attempts  and  prayers. 

WILLIAM  ROUNSEVILLE  ALGER. 

AN  ideal  type  in  which  meekness,  gentle- 
ness, patience,  humility,  faith,  and  love  are 
the  most  prominent  features,  is  not  naturally 
male,  but  female. 

WILLIAM  EDWARD  HARTPOLE  LECKY. 

EVEN  though  the  wife  be  little,  bow  down 
to  her  in  speaking.  TALMUD. 

THE  vainest  woman  is  never  thoroughly 
conscious  of  her  own  beauty  till  she  is  loved 
by  the  man  who  sets  her  own  passion  vibrat- 
ing in  return.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

T  is  a  terrible  thing  that  we  cannot  wish 
young  ladies  well  without  wishing  them  to 
become  old  women.  SAMUEL  JOHNSON. 

WE  men  have  no  right  to  say  it,  but  the 
omnipotence  of  Eve  is  in  humility. 

RALPH  WALDO  EMERSON. 


56  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

WOMAN'S  power  is  for  rule,  not  for  battle  ; 
and  her  intellect  is  not  for  invention  or 
creation,  but  for  sweet  ordering  arrangement 
and  decision.  JOHN  RUSKIN. 

WOMAN  is  a  delightful  musical  instrument, 
of  which  love  is  the  bow  and  man  the  artist. 
MARIE  HENRI  BAYLE. 

FIT  the  same  intellect  to  a  man,  and  it  is 
a  bowstring ;  to  a  woman,  and  it  is  a  harp- 
string.  OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

A  CLIP  of  a  wife  roasts  her  husband,  stout- 
hearted though  he  may  be,  without  a  fire, 
and  hands  him  over  to  premature  old  age. 

HESIOD. 

THERE  are  three  things  that  I  have  always 
loved  and  have  never  understood,  —  Paint- 
ing, Music,  and  Woman. 

BERNARD  LE  BOVIER  DE  FONTENELLE. 

LEARNED  women  have  lost  all  credit  by 
their  impertinent  talkativeness  and  conceit. 

JONATHAN  SWIFT. 

THE  coquette  compromises  her  reputation, 
and  sometimes  saves  her  virtue ;  the  prude, 
on  the  contrary,  often  sacrifices  her  honor  in 
secret,  and  preserves  it  in  public. 

MME.  DU  BOCAGE. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  57 

WOMEN,  cats,  and  birds  are  the  creatures 
that  waste  most  time  on  their  toilets. 

CHARLES  NODIER. 

FEMALE  goodness  seldom  keeps  its  ground 
against  laughter,  flattery,  or  fashion. 

SAMUEL  JOHNSON. 

THERE  is  no  torture  that  a  woman  would 
not  suffer  to  enhance  her  beauty. 

MICHAEL  DE  MONTAIGNE. 

MOST  women  proceed  like  the  flea,  —  by 
leaps  and  jumps.  HONORE  DE  BALZAC. 

THE  merest  trifles  will  affect  the  mind  of 
a  woman.  TITUS  LIVIUS. 

THE  most  fascinating  women  are  those 
that  can  most  enrich  the  every-day  moments 
of  existence.  LEIGH  HUNT. 

LEARN,  above  all,  how  to  manage  women  ; 
their  thousand  "  Ahs  "  and  "  Ohs,"  so  thou- 
sand-fold, can  be  cured  from  a  single  point. 
JOHANN  WOLFGANG  VON  GOETHE. 

ALL  women  are  fond  of  minds  that  inhabit 
fine  bodies,  and  of  souls  that  have  fine  eyes. 

JOSEPH  JOUBERT. 

MOTHERS  are  the  only  goddesses  in  whom 
the  whole  world  believes.  ANONYMOUS. 


58  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

A  GIRL  of  eighteen  imagines  the  feelings 
behind  the  face  that  has  moved  her  with  its 
sympathetic  youth  as  easily  as  primitive 
people  imagined  the  humors  of  the  gods  in 
fair  weather :  what  is  she  to  believe  in,  if 
not  in  this  vision  woven  from  within? 

GEORGE  ELIOT. 

THE  heart  of  a  loving  woman  is  a  golden 
sanctuary,  where  often  there  reigns  an  idol 
of  clay.  PAULIN  LIMAYRAC. 


WOMAN'S    BEAUTY. 

WE  find  beauty  itself  a  very  poor  thing 
unless  beautified  by  sentiment.  The  reader 
may  take  the  confession  as  he  pleases,  either 
as  an  instance  of  abundance  of  sentiment 
on  our  part,  or  as  an  evidence  of  want  of 
proper  ardor  and  impartiality  ;  but  we  can- 
not (and  that  is  the  plain  truth)  think  the 
most  beautiful  creature  beautiful,  or  be  at  all 
affected  by  her,  or  long  to  sit  next  her,  or 
go  to  a  theatre  with  her,  or  listen  to  a  con- 
cert with  her,  or  walk  in  a  field  or  a  forest 
with  her,  or  call  her  by  her  Christian  name, 
or  ask  her  if  she  likes  poetry,  or  tie  (with 
any  satisfaction)  her  gown  for  her,  or  be 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  59 

asked  whether  we  admire  her  shoe,  or  take 
her  arm,  even  into  a  dining-room,  or  kiss 
her  at  Christmas,  or  on  May-day,  or  on  any 
other  day,  or  dream  of  her,  or  wake  thinking 
of  her,  or  feel  a  want  in  the  room  when  she 
is  gone,  or  a  pleasure  the  more  when  she  ap- 
pears, —  unless  she  has  a  heart  as  well  as  a 
face,  and  is  a  proper,  good-tempered,  natu- 
ral, sincere,  honest  girl,  who  has  a  love  for 
other  people  and  other  things,  apart  from  self- 
reference  and  the  wish  to  be  admired.  Her 
face  would  pall  upon  us  in  the  course  of  a 
week,  or  even  become  disagreeable.  We 
should  prefer  an  enamelled  teacup ;  for  we 
should  expect  nothing  from  it.  We  remem- 
ber the  impression  made  on  us  by  a  female 
plaster-cast  hand,  sold  in  the  shops  as  a 
model.  It  is  beautifully  turned,  though  we 
thought  it  somewhat  too  plump  and  well-fed. 
The  fingers,  however,  are  delicately  tapered, 
the  outline  flowing  and  graceful.  We  fancied 
it  to  have  belonged  to  some  jovial  beauty,  a 
little  too  fat  and  festive,  but  laughing  withal, 
and  as  full  of  good-nature.  The  posses- 
sor told  us  it  was  the  hand  of  Madame 
Brinvilliers,  the  famous  poisoner.  The  word 
was  no  sooner  spoken  than  we  shrank  from 


60  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

it  as  if  it  had  been  a  toad.  It  was  now 
literally  hideous ;  the  fat  seemed  sweltering 
and  full  of  poison.  The  beauty  added  to 
the  deformity.  You  resented  the  grace ; 
you  shrank  from  the  look  of  smoothness  as 
from  a  snake.  The  woman  went  to  the 
scaffold  with  as  much  indifference  as  she 
distributed  her  poisons.  The  character  of 
her  mind  was  insensibility.  The  strongest 
of  excitements  was  to  her  what  a  cup  of  tea 
was  to  other  people.  And  such  is  the  char- 
acter, more  or  less,  of  all  mere  beauty. 

LEIGH  HUNT. 


VI. 

FOOLS  that  on  women  trust ;  for  in  their 
speech  is  death,  hell  in  their  smile. 

TORQUATO  TASSO. 

AT  the  age  of  sixty  to  marry  a  beautiful  girl 
of  sixteen  is  to  imitate  those  ignorant  people 
who  buy  books  to  be  read  by  their  friends. 

ANTOINE  RICARD. 

WOMEN  forgive  injuries,  but  never  forget 
slights.  T.  C.  HALIBURTON. 

THE  virtue  of  women  is  often  the  love  of 
reputation  and  quiet. 

FRANCOIS  DE  LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

FOR  nothing  lovelier  can  be  found 
In  woman  than  to  study  household  good, 
And  good  works  in  her  husband  to  promote. 

JOHN  MILTON. 

WOMAN  is  the  most  precious  jewel  taken 
from  Nature's  casket  for  the  ornamenta- 
tion and  happiness  of  man. 

BERNARD  GUYARD. 


62  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

WOMEN  have  such  a  wonderful  power  of 
secreting  adjectives  that  they  cannot  speak 
the  truth  when  they  try.  FREDERICK  SHELDON. 

WOMEN  divine  that  they  are  loved  long- 
before  it  is  told  them. 

DE  CHAMBLAIN  DE  MARIVAUX. 

MEN  say  of  women  what  pleases  them  ; 
women  do  with  men  what  pleases  them. 

Louis  PHILIPPE  DE  SEGUR. 

WOMAN  must  not  belong  to  herself;  she  is 
bound  to  alien  destinies. 

FRIEDRICH  VON  SCHILLER. 

DON'T  trust  your  horse  in  the  field,  nor 
your  wife  in  your  home.  RUSSIAN  PROVERB. 

WOMAN  has  been  fed  upon  flattery  until  it 
is  not  strange  she  hungers  for  substantial 
diet,  whose  best  sauce  is  understanding  and 
appreciation.  JUNIUS  HENRI  BROWNE. 

ONE  thing  only  I  believe  in  a  woman,  — 
that  she  will  not  come  to  life  again  after  she 
is  dead.  ANTIPHANES. 

THE  life  of  a  woman  is  a  long  dissimula- 
tion. Candor,  beauty,  freshness,  virginity, 
modesty,  —  a  woman  has  each  of  these  but 
once.  RELIF  DE  LA  BRETONNE. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  63 

WOMAN'S  grief  is  like  a  summer  storm, 
Short  as  't  is  violent.          JOANNA  BAILLIE. 

MEN  call  physicians  only  when  they  suffer ; 
women  when  they  are  only  afflicted  with 
ennui.  MME.  DE  GENUS. 

OH  !  the  spells 

That  haunt  the  trembling  tale  a  bright- eyed 
maiden  tells  !  EDWIN  ARNOLD. 

A  YOUNG  girl  betrays,  in  a  moment,  that 
her  eyes  have  been  feeding  on  the  face  where 
you  find  them  fixed. 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

LIFE  is  not  long  enough  for  a  coquette  to 
play  all  her  tricks  in.  JOSEPH  ADDISON. 

THE  woman  who  loves  us  is  only  a  woman, 
but  the  woman  we  love  is  a  celestial  being 
whose  defects  disappear  under  the  prism 
through  which  we  see  her. 

EMILE  DE  GIRARDIN. 

WOMAN'S  love,  like  lichens  on  a  rock,  will 
still  grow  where  even  charity  can  find  no  soil 
to  nurture  itself.  BOVEE. 

IF  a  fox  is  cunning,  a  woman  in  love  is  a 
thousand  times  more  so.  PROVERB. 


64  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

THERE  are  few  husbands  whom  the  wife 
cannot  win  in  the  long  run  by  patience  and 
love.  MARGUERITE  DE  VALOIS. 

A  WOMAN  indeed  ventures  most,  for  she 
hath  no  sanctuary  to  retire  to  from  an  evil 
husband.  JEREMY  TAYLOR. 

NOTHING,  certainly,  is  so  ornamental  and 
delightful  in  women  as  the  benevolent  affec- 
tions ;  but  time  cannot  be  filled  up  and  life 
employed,  with  high  and  impassioned  virtues. 
We  know  women  are  to  be  compassionate ; 
but  they  cannot  be  compassionate  from  eight 
o'clock  in  the  morning  till  twelve  at  night ; 
and  what  are  they  to  do  in  the  interval  ? 

SYDNEY  SMITH. 

A  MAN  without  religion  is  to  be  pitied, 
but  a  godless  woman  is  a  horror  above  all 
things.  ELIZABETH  EVANS. 

SHE  who  makes  her  husband  and  her 
children  happy,  who  reclaims  the  one  from 
vice,  and  trains  up  the  other  to  virtue,  is  a 
much  greater  character  than  ladies  described 
in  romance,  whose  whole  occupation  is  to 
murder  mankind  with  shafts  from  the  quiver 
of  their  eyes.  OLIVER  GOLDSMITH. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  65 

CRUELLY  tempted,  perplexed  and  bewil- 
dered, when  passion  is  stronger  than  reason, 
women  do  not  think  of  consequences,  but  go 
blindfolded,  headlong  to  their  ruin. 

AMELIA  E.  BARR. 

VANITY  acts  like  a  woman,  —  they  both 
think  they  lose  something  when  love  or 
praise  is  accorded  to  another.  ANONYMOUS. 

ONE  woman  reads  another's  character 
without  the  tedious  trouble  of  deciphering. 

BEN  JONSON. 

WOMEN  are  much  more  like  each  other 
than  men ;  they  have,  in  truth,  but  two  pas- 
sions, —  vanity  and  love. 

LORD  CHESTERFIELD. 

A  JEST  that  makes  a  virtuous  woman  only 
smile,  often  frightens  away  a  prude. 

NICOLAS  VALENTIN  DE  LATENA. 

IF  the  loving  closed  heart  of  a  good 
woman  were  to  open  before  a  man,  how 
much  controlled  tenderness,  how  many  veiled 
sacrifices  and  dumb  virtues  would  he  see  ! 

JEAN  PAUL  RICHTER. 

WOMAN  is  a  flower  that  exhales  her  per- 
fume only  in  the  shade. 

HUGUES  FELICITE  ROBERT  DE  LAMENNAIS. 
S 


66  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

AN  honest  woman  is  the  one  we  fear  to 
compromise.  HONORE  DE  BALZAC. 

A  WOMAN,  the  more  curious  she  is  about 
her  face,  is  commonly  the  more  careless 
about  her  house.  BEN  JONSON. 

HEAVEN  has  refused  genius  to  woman,  in 
order  to  concentrate  all  the  fire  in  her  heart. 

ANTOINE  RIVAROL. 

THE  two  pleasantest  days  of  a  woman  are 
her  marriage  day  and  the  day  of  her  funeral. 

HIPPONAX. 

A  WOMAN  who  writes  commits  two  sins1: 
she  increases  the  number  of  books,  and 
decreases  the  number  of  women. 

ALPHONSE  KARR. 

WOMEN  are  like  limpets ;  they  need  some- 
thing to  hold  on  by.  SIGMA. 

A  LADY'S  wish  —  he  said,  with  a  certain 
gallantry  of  manner  —  makes  slaves  of  us 
all.  OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

MEN  lean  more  to  justice,  and  women  to 
mercy.  Men  excel  in  energy,  self-reliance, 
perseverance,  and  magnanimity;  women  in 
humility,  gentleness,  modesty,  and  endur- 
ance. WILLIAM  EDWARD  HARTPOLE  LECKY. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM,  6j 

WOMEN  are  never  stronger  than  when  they 
arm  themselves  with  their  weakness. 

MME.  DU  DEFFAND. 

WOMEN'S  lives  are  so  private,  their  dispo- 
sitions are  so  modest,  their  experiences  have 
been  so  little  noticed  by  history,  that  the 
annals  of  the  feminine  heart  are  for  the  most 
part  a  secret  chapter. 

WILLIAM  ROUNSEVILLE  ALGER. 

WOMEN  are  apt  to  see  chiefly  the  defects 
of  a  man  of  talent  and  the  merits  of  a  fool. 

ANONYMOUS. 

WOMEN  have  a  perpetual  envy  of  our 
vices;  they  are  less  vicious  than  we,  not 
from  choice,  but  because  we  restrict  them ; 
they  are  the  slaves  of  order  and  fashion. 

SAMUEL  JOHNSON. 

IT  is  generally  a  feminine  eye  that  first 
detects  the  moral  deficiencies  hidden  under 
the  "  dear  deceit "  of  beauty. 

GEORGE  ELIOT. 

I  DETEST  those  women  who  mount  the 
pulpit  and  lay  their  passions  bare. 

EUGENIE  DE  GUERIN. 

OF  all  men,  Adam  was  the  happiest :  he 
had  no  mother-in-law.  PAUL  PARFAIT. 


68  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

WOMAN'S  gravest  faults  are  the  natural  pro- 
duct of  a  heart  too  warm  and  sympathetic  to 
brook  indifference,  too  pure  and  trusting  to 
cope  with  duplicity.  It  is  not  man's  tear  of 
pity  but  his  tear  of  devotion  that  should  blot 
out  an  evil  record.  FREDERICK  W.  MORTON. 

BELOVED  darlings,  who  cover  over  and 
shadow  many  malicious  purposes  with  a 
counterfeit  passion  of  dissimulate  sorrow  and 
unquietness.  SIR  WALTER  RALEIGH. 

WOMEN  were  made  to  give  our  eyes  delight : 
A  female  sloven  is  an  odious  sight. 

EDWARD  YOUNG. 

A  MOTHER'S  tenderness  and  caresses  are 
the  milk  of  the  heart.  EUGENIE  DE  GUERIN. 

THE  education  of  the  present  race  of 
females  is  not  very  favorable  to  domestic 
happiness.  HANNAH  MORE. 

IF  the  world  was  lost  through  woman,  she 
alone  can  save  it.  Louis  DE  BEAUFORT. 


WOMEN  AS  INCONSTANTS. 

WOMAN  is  not  absolute  fixedness  and 
fidelity;  but  she  is  such  compared  with 
man.  Were  she  a  hundred  times  less  stable 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  69 

than  she  is,  he  still  might  honor  her  in  that 
as  infinite  superior.  Love  to  her  means  loy- 
alty, engrossment,  dedication.  She  is  liable 
to  deceive  herself;  she  is  far  more  liable  to 
be  deceived.  But  when  she  gives,  without 
reserve  or  stint,  the  wealth  of  her  affection, 
she  plays  the  prodigal  to  the  last,  unless  his 
conduct  stirs  her  to  count  the  cost.  The 
law  of  her  being  is  not  to  swerve  where  her 
heart  leads  the  way;  nor  will  she,  save  ex- 
ceptionally. Too  often,  however,  her  faithful 
heart  is  driven  back  by  neglect,  indifference, 
rejection;  and,  to  shield  himself,  he  calls 
his  coldness  or  his  cruelty  her  inconstancy. 
He  is  ingenious  and  industrious  in  hiding  his 
transgressions,  with  perfidious  labels  adver- 
tising her  ingratitude,  insensibility,  and  heart- 
lessness.  She  is  ungrateful  because  she  will 
not  accept  mere  material  support  as  the 
highest  and  fullest  giving;  insensible,  be- 
cause she  refuses  to  see  in  empty  forms  the 
spirit  that  is  withheld ;  heartless,  because 
she  declines  to  surrender,  through  all  life, 
much  for  little,  —  something  for  nothing. 
In  nineteen  instances  out  of  twenty,  woman's 
change  may  be  traced  directly  to  sins  of 
omission  or  commission  in  the  man.  Loy- 


70  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

alty  is  the  groove  in  which  temperament  and 
condition  have  placed  her,  and  she  runs 
smoothly  in  it  until  jolted  out  by  some  social 
convulsion.  Before  there  was  something 
wrong  in  her,  depend  upon  it  there  was 
something  very  wrong  in  him.  Morally,  he 
is  cause  to  her  effect.  He  cannot  shoot  his 
arrows  of  indiscretion  so  carelessly  as  not  to 
fix  more  than  one  in  her  extended  sympa- 
thies. When  she  loves,  she  is  sensitiveness 
itself.  The  lightest  glance,  the  slightest 
word,  the  variation  of  a  tone,  may  make 
or  mar  her  peace.  The  shifting  of  an  atom 
of  attention  or  affection  which  she  believes 
to  belong  to  herself,  disturbs  her  equilibrium 

beyond  his  fathoming. 

JUNIUS  HENRI  BROWNE. 


VII. 

I  THINK  Nature  and  an  angry  God  pro- 
duced thee  to  the  world,  thou  wicked  sex, 
to  be  a  plague  to  man.  LUDOVICO  ARIOSTO. 

WOMEN  enjoy  more  the  pleasure  they  give 
than  the  pleasure  they  feel.  ROCHEPEDRE. 

SHE  is  a  woman,  therefore  may  be  woo'd ; 
She  is  a  woman,  therefore  may  be  won. 

WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 

WOMAN'S  tongue  is  her  sword,  which  she 
never  lets  rust.  MME.  NECKER. 

WIFE  and  children  are  a  kind  of  discipline 
of  humanity.  FRANCIS  BACON. 

FEMININE  charity  renews  every  day  the 
miracle  of  Christ  feeding  a  multitude  with 
a  few  loaves  and  fishes. 

ERNEST  WILFRID  LEGOUVE. 

WITH  cleverness,  thirty  years,  and  a  little 
beauty,  a  woman  makes  fewer  conquests  but 
more  durable  ones.  ANTOINE  DUPUY. 


72  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

WOMEN  who  marry,  seldom  act  but  once ; 
their  lot  is,  ere  they  wed,  obedience  unto  a 
father,  thenceforth  to  a  husband. 

JOHN  WESTLAND  MARSTON. 

THE  world  is  so  unjust  that  a  female  heart 
which  has  once  been  touched  is  thought  for- 
ever blemished.  SIR  RICHARD  STEELE. 

THE  beauty  of  a  young  girl  should  speak 
to  the  imagination,  and  not  to  the  senses. 

ALPHONSE  KARR. 

NATURE  and  custom  would,  no  doubt,  agree 
in  conceding  to  all  males  the  right  of  at  least 
two  distinct  looks  at  every  comely  female 
countenance.  OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

WE  love  handsome  women  from  inclina- 
tion, homely  women  from  interest,  and  vir- 
tuous women  from  reason. 

ARSENE  HOUSSAYE. 

THERE  is  something  still  more  to  be 
dreaded  than  a  Jesuit,  and  that  is  a  Jesuitess. 

EUGENE  SUE. 

UNEDUCATED  men  may  escape  intellectual 
degradation ;  uneducated  women  cannot. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. 

A  WOMAN  and  her  servant,  acting  in  accord, 
would  outwit  a  dozen  devils.  PROVERB. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  73 

THE  masculine  personal  pronoun  is  singu- 
larly restricted  in  woman's  judgment.  Passion 
has  curtailed  her  grammar  amazingly.  She 
can  remember  only  one  number  (that  is 
Greek).  JUNIUS  HENRI  BROWNE. 

THERE  is  nothing  sadder  than  to  look  at 
dressy  old  things,  who  have  reached  the 
frozen  latitudes  beyond  fifty,  and  who  per- 
sist in  appearing  in  the  airy  costume  of  the 
tropics.  FREDERICK  SHELDON. 

A  WOMAN  finds  it  a  much  easier  task  to  do 
an  evil  than  a  virtuous  deed. 

T.  MACCIUS  PLAUTUS. 

I  HAVE  always  said  it :  Nature  meant  to 
make  woman  as  its  masterpiece. 

GOTTHOLD  EPHRAIM  LESSING. 

WOMAN  is  the  organ  of  the  devil. 

BERNARD  DE  VARENNES. 

WOMEN  are  a  breed  the  like  of  which 
neither  sea  nor  earth  produces  anything; 
he  who  is  always  with  them  knows  them 
best.  EURIPIDES. 

WOMEN  make  us  lose  paradise,  but  how 
frequently  we  find  it  again  in  their  arms  ! 

J.  DE  FINOD. 


74  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

O  PYGMALION,  who  can  wonder  (no  artist 
surely)  that  thou  didst  fall  in  love  with  the 
work  of  thine  own  hands  !  LEIGH  HUNT. 

THE  mistakes  of  a  woman  result  almost 
always  from  her  faith  in  the  good  and  her 
confidence  in  the  truth.  HONOR£  DE  BALZAC. 

LET  an  action  be  never  so  trivial  in  itself, 
women  always  make  it  appear  of  the  most 
importance.  ALEXANDER  POPE. 

THERE  are  only  two  beautiful  things  in  the 
world, —  women  and  roses ;  and  only  two 
sweet  things,  —  women  and  melons. 

FRANCOIS  DE  MALHERBE. 

O  WOMAN,  lovely  woman,  nature  form'd  thee 
To  temper  man ;  we  had  been  brutes  with- 
out thee.  THOMAS  OTWAY. 

BEFORE  promising  a  woman  to  love  only 
her,  one  should  have  seen  them  all,  or  should 
see  only  her.  ANTOINE  DUPUY. 

WOMEN,  so  amiable  in  themselves,  are 
never  so  amiable  as  when  they  are  useful; 
and  as  for  beauty,  though  men  may  fall  in 
love  with  girls  at  play,  there  is  nothing  to 
make  them  stand  to  their  love  like  seeing 
them  at  work.  WILLIAM  COBBETT. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  75 

WOMEN'S  sins  are  not  alone  the  ills  they  do, 
but  those  they  provoke  you  to  do. 

DR.  WALTER  SMITH. 

A  MAN  philosophizes  better  than  a  woman 
on  the  human  heart,  but  she  reads  the  hearts 
of  men  better  than  he. 

JEAN  JACQUES  ROUSSEAU. 

WHAT  a  woman  should  demand  of  a  man 
in  courtship,  or  after  it,  is,  first,  respect  for 
her,  as  she  is  a  woman ;  and  next  to  that, 
to  be  respected  by  him  above  all  other 
women.  CHARLES  LAMB. 

A  BEAUTIFUL  and  chaste  woman  is  the  per- 
fect workmanship  of  God,  the  true  glory  of 
angels,  the  rare  miracle  of  earth,  and  the  sole 
wonder  of  the  world.  HERMES. 

JUST  corporeal  enough  to  attest  humanity, 
yet  sufficiently  transparent  to  let  the  celestial 
origin  shine  through. 

GIOVANNI  DOMENICO  RUFFINI. 

IF  we  wish  to  know  the  political  and  moral 
condition  of  a  State,  we  must  ask  what  rank 
women  hold  in  it.  Their  influence  embraces 
the  whole  of  life.  AIMI  MARTIN. 


j6  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

MEN  are  more  eloquent  than  women  made, 
But  women  are  more  powerful  to  persuade. 

THOMAS  RANDOLPH. 

WHEN  women  love  us,  they  forgive  us 
everything,  even  our  crimes  ;  when  they  do 
not  love  us,  they  give  us  credit  for  nothing, 

not  even  for  our  virtues. 

DE  BALZAC. 


A  WOMAN,  —  where  can  she  put  her  hope 
in  storms,  if  not  in  Heaven? 

DONALD  G.  MITCHELL. 

SHE  who  spit  in  my  face  whilst  I  was,  shall 
come  to  kiss  my  feet  when  I  am  no  more. 

MICHAEL  DE  MONTAIGNE. 

SOME  women  are  so  just  and  discerning 
that  they  never  see  an  opportunity  to  be 
generous.  ANONYMOUS. 

I  AM  glad  I  am  not  a  man,  as  I  should  be 
obliged  to  marry  a  woman. 

MME.  DE  STAEL. 

THERE  would  be  no  such  animals  as 
prudes  or  coquettes  in  the  world  were  there 

not  such  an  animal  as  man. 

JOSEPH  ADDISON. 

WOMEN  have  tongues  of  craft  and  hearts 
of  guile.  TORQUATO  TASSO. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  77 

A  COQUETTE  has  no  heart:  she  has  only 
vanity ;  it  is  adorers  she  seeks,  not  love. 

A.   POINCELOT. 

A  WOMAN  who  has  surrendered  her  lips 
has  surrendered  everything. 

THEOPHILE  VIAUD. 

THINK  not,  when  woman's  transient  breath 

is  fled, 
That  all  her  vanities  at  once  are  dead. 

ALEXANDER  POPE. 

A  WOMAN  repents  sincerely  of  her  fault 
only  after  being  weaned  from  her  infatuation 
for  the  one  who  induced  her  to  commit  it. 

NICOLAS  VALENTIN  DE  LATENA. 

LET  the  great  soul  incarnated  in  some 
woman's  form,  poor  and  sad  and  single,  in 
some  Dolly  or  Joan,  go  out  to  service. 

RALPH  WALDO  EMERSON. 

WOMAN,  naturally  enthusiastic  of  the  good 
and  beautiful,  sanctifies  all  that  she  sur- 
rounds with  her  affection. 

ALFRED  MERCIER. 

WOMEN  have  more  understanding  in  their 
own  affairs  than  we  have,  and  women  of 
spirit  are  not  to  be  won  by  mourners. 

SIR  RICHARD  STEELE. 


78  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

MARRY  a  virgin,  that  thou  mayst  teach  her 
discreet  manners.  HESIOD. 

PRETTY  women  gaze  with  envy,  homely 
women  with  spite,  old  men  with  regret, 
young  men  with  transport. 

JEAN  BAPTISTE  DE  BOYER  D'ARGENS. 
HELL  is  paved  with  women's  tongues. 

ABB£  GUYON. 


MAN  VERSUS  WOMAN. 

PHYSICALLY,  men  have  the  indisputable 
superiority  in  strength,  and  women  in  beauty. 
Intellectually,  a  certain  inferiority  of  the 
female  sex  can  hardly  be  denied  when  we 
remember  how  almost  exclusively  the  fore- 
most places  in  every  department  of  science, 
literature,  and  art  have  been  occupied  by 
men,  how  infinitesimally  small  is  the  num- 
ber of  women  who  have  shown  in  any  form 
the  highest  order  of  genius,  how  many 
of  the  greatest  men  have  achieved  their 
greatness  in  defiance  of  the  most  adverse 
circumstances,  and  how  completely  women 
have  failed  in  obtaining  the  first  position, 
even  in  music  or  painting,  for  the  cultivation 
of  which  their  circumstances  would  appear 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  79 

most  propitious.  It  is  as  impossible  to  find 
a  female  Raphael,  or  a  female  Handel,  as  a 
female  Shakespeare  or  Newton.  .  .  .  Mor- 
ally, the  general  superiority  of  women  over 
men  is,  I  think,  unquestionable.  If  we  take 
the  somewhat  coarse  and  inadequate  crite- 
rion of  police  statistics,  we  find  that  while 
the  male  and  female  populations  are  nearly 
the  same  in  number,  the  crimes  committed 
by  men  are  usually  rather  more  than  five 
times  as  numerous  as  those  committed  by 
women.  .  .  .  Self-sacrifice  is  the  most  con- 
spicuous element  of  a  virtuous  and  religious 
character,  and  it  is  certainly  far  less  common 
among  men  than  among  women,  whose  whole 
lives  are  usually  spent  in  yielding  to  the  will 
and  consulting  the  pleasures  of  another. 
There  are  two  great  departments  of  virtue,  — 
the  impulsive,  or  that  which  springs  sponta- 
neously from  the  emotions ;  and  the  deliber- 
ative, or  that  which  is  performed  in  obedience 
to  the  sense  of  duty,  —  and  in  both  of  these  I 
imagine  women  are  superior  to  men.  Their 
sensibility  is  greater ;  they  are  more  chaste, 
both  in  thought  and  act,  more  tender  to  the 
erring,  more  compassionate  to  the  suffering, 
more  affectionate  to  all  about  them. 

WILLIAM  EDWARD  HARTPOLE  LECKY. 


VIII. 

THE  starry  crown  of  woman  is  in  the 
power  of  her  affection  and  sentiment  and  the 
infinite  enlargements  to  which  they  lead. 

RALPH  WALDO  EMERSON. 

HOWEVER  much  woman  may  need  deliver- 
ance from  some  outward  trials  and  disabil- 
ities, her  grand  want  is  a  freer,  deeper, 
richer,  holier  inward  life. 

WILLIAM  ROUNSEVILLE  ALGER. 

HE  that  hath  a  fair  wife  never  wants 
trouble.  PROVERB. 

THE  man  who  awakes  the  wondering,  trem- 
ulous passion  of  a  young  girl  always  thinks 
her  affectionate.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

A  WOMAN,  unlike  Narcissus,  seeks  not  her 
own  image  and  a  second  I ;  she  much  pre- 
fers a  not  I.  JEAN  PAUL  RICHTER. 

WOMAN  is  seldom  merciful  to  the  man  who 
is  timid.  EDWARD  BULWER-LYTTON. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  8 1 

THERE  is  no  grace  that  is  taught  by  the 
dancing-master,  no  style  adopted  into  the 
etiquette  of  courts,  but  was  first  the  whim 
and  mere  action  of  some  brilliant  woman. 

RALPH  WALDO  EMERSON. 

THE  conversation  of  women  in  society 
resembles  the  straw  used  in  packing  china ; 
it  is  nothing,  yet,  without  it,  everything  would 
be  broken.  MME.  DE  SALM. 

MORE  joy  it  gives  to  woman's  breast 
To  make  ten  frigid  coxcombs  vain, 
Than  one  true,  manly  lover  blest ! 

THOMAS  MOORE. 

THE  woman  who  does  not  choose  to  love 
should  cut  the  matter  short  at  once,  by  hold- 
ing out  no  hope  to  her  suitor. 

MARGUERITE  DE  VALOIS. 
ONE  single  honest  man  may  yet  be  seen ; 
but  wander  all  the  world  round  to  find  one 
honest  woman,  he  will  search  in  vain. 

CHRISTOPH  MARTIN  WIELAND. 

A  WOMAN  forgives  the  audacity  which  her 
beauty  has  prompted  us  to  be  guilty  of. 

ALAIN  RENE  LESAGE. 

To  marry  a  wife,  if  we  regard  the  truth,  is 
an  evil,  but  it  is  a  necessary  evil.    MENANDER. 
6 


82  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

THE   nervous   fluid   in  man  is   consumed . 
by  the  brain ;  in  woman  by  the  heart :  it  is 
there  that  they  are  most  sensitive. 

MARIE  HENRI  BAYLE. 

IN  her  first  passion,  woman  loves  her  lover ; 
In  all  the  others,  all  she  loves  is  love. 

LORD  BYRON. 

THERE  will  always  remain  something  to  be 
said  of  woman,  as  long  as  there  is  one  on 
the  earth.  STANISLAS  DE  BOUFLERS. 

WHEN  a  woman  says  she  loves  a  man, 
The  man  must  hear  her,  though  he  love  her 

not. 

ELIZABETH  BARRETT  BROWNING. 

THE  virtue  of  widows  is  a  laborious  virtue  ; 
they  have  to  combat  constantly  with  the 
remembrance  of  past  bliss.  SAINT  JEROME. 

A  WOMAN  whose  ruling  passion  is  not  vanity 
is  superior  to  any  man  of  equal  capacity. 

JOHN  CASPAR  LAVATER. 

WOMAN'S  natural  mission  is  to  love,  to  love 
but  one,  to  love  always.  JULES  MICHELET. 

ONE  reason  why  women  are  forbidden  to 
preach  the  gospel  is  that  they  would  per- 
suade without  argument  and  reprove  without 
giving  offence.  JOHN  NEWTON. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  83 

THE  last  act  in  woman's  comedy  may  turn 
to  tragedy.  The  smiles  of  the  morning  may 
set  in  bitterest  tears.  All  about  her  oasis  of 
coquetry  lies  the  blistering  sand  of  desola- 
tion. JUNIUS  HENRI  BROWNE. 

HE  bears  an  honorable  mind, 
And  will  not  use  a  woman  lawlessly. 

WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 

WOMEN  are  compounds  of  plain -sewing 
and  make-believe,  daughters  of  Sham  and 
Hem.  FREDERICK  SHELDON. 

THE   sweetest  noise   on   earth,   a  woman's 

tongue ; 
A  string  which  hath  no  discord. 

BARRY  CORNWALL. 

FINESSE  has  been  given  to  woman  to  com- 
pensate the  force  of  man. 

PIERRE  DE  LACLOS. 

WOMEN  are  demons  who  make  us  enter 
hell  through  the  door  of  paradise. 

ANONYMOUS. 

IT  is  to  teach  us  early  how  to  think  and  to 
excite  our  infantile  imagination,  that  prudent 
nature  has  given  to  women  so  much  chit- 
chat. JEAN  DE  LA  BRUYERE. 


84  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

OH,  woman  !  woman  !  thou  shouldst  have 
few  sins  of  thy  own  to  answer  for !  Thou 
art  the  author  of  such  a  book  of  follies  in  a 
man  !  EDWARD  BULWER-LYTTON. 

WOMAN'S  dignity  lies  in  her  being  un- 
known ;  her  glory  in  the  esteem  of  her  hus- 
band ;  and  her  pleasure  in  the  welfare  of  her 
family.  JEAN  JACQUES  ROUSSEAU. 

THOU  knowest  the  ways  of  women ;  while 
they  are  setting  themselves  off  and  tricking 
out  their  persons,  it  is  an  age. 

PUBLIUS  TERENTIUS  AFER. 

IN  love,  she  who  gives  her  portrait  prom- 
ises the  original.  ANTOINE  DUPUY. 

THE  man  who  seems  to  care  little  whether 
he  charms  or  attracts  women  is  he  who 
offends  and  seduces. 

JOHANN  WOLFGANG  VON  GOETHE. 

To  correct  the  faults  of  man,  we  address 
the  head ;  to  correct  those  of  woman,  we 
address  the  heart. 

EDME  PIERRE  CHANVOT  DE  BEAUCHENE. 

THE  man  flaps  about  with  a  bunch  of 
feathers ;  the  woman  goes  to  work  softly 
with  a  cloth.  OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  85 

GLORY  can  be  for  a  woman  but  the  bril- 
liant mourning  of  happiness. 

MME.  DE  STAEL. 

WOMEN  have  more  of  what  is  termed 
good  sense  than  men.  They  cannot  reason 
wrong,  for  they  do  not  reason  at  all. 

WILLIAM  HAZLITT. 

LET  her  have  a  dozen  admirers,  and  the 
dear  coquette  will  exercise  her  power  upon 
them  all ;  and  as  a  lady,  when  she  has  a 
large  wardrobe,  and  a  taste  for  variety  in 
dress,  will  appear  every  day  in  a  different 
costume.  WILLIAM  MAKEPEACE  THACKERAY. 

IN  anger  against  a  rival  all  women,  even 
duchesses,  employ  invective.  Then  they 
make  use  of  everything  as  a  weapon. 

ANONYMOUS. 

THE  Egyptian  people,  wisest  then  of  na- 
tions, gave  to  their  Spirit  of  Wisdom  the 
form  of  a  woman ;  and  into  her  hand,  for  a 
symbol,  the  weaver's  shuttle.  JOHN  RUSKIN. 

THE  life  of  a  woman  can  be  divided  into 
three  epochs:  in  the  first  she  dreams  of 
love,  in  the  second  she  experiences  it,  in 
the  third  she  regrets  it. 

ANTOINE  JEAN  CASS£  DE  SAINT-PROSPER, 


86  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM, 

A  WOMAN  moved  is  like  a  fountain  troubled, 
Muddy,  ill-seeming,  thick,  bereft  of  beauty. 
WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 

GIVE  me  women,  wine,  and  snuff, 
Until  I  cry  out,  "  Hold,  enough  !  " 

JOHN  KEATS. 

THE  ruses  of  women  multiply  with  their 
years.  PROVERB. 

WOMEN  wish  to  be  loved,  not  because 
they  are  pretty  or  good  or  well-bred  or 
graceful  or  intelligent,  but  because  they  are 
themselves.  HENRI  FREDERIC  AMIEL. 

SOCIETY  depends  upon  women.  The  na- 
tions who  confine  them  are  unsociable. 

FRANC.OIS  MARIE  AROUET  DE  VOLTAIRE. 

I  AM  asham'd  that  women  are  so  simple 
To  offer  war  where  they  should  kneel  for  peace, 
Or  seek  for  rule,  supremacy,  and  sway, 
When  they  are  bound  to  serve,  love,  and 
obey.  WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 

A  BEAUTIFUL  woman  with  the  qualities  of 
a  noble  man  is  the  most  perfect  thing  in 
nature.  JEAN  DE  LA  BRUYERE. 

THE  mistake  of  many  women  is  to  return 
sentiment  for  gallantry. 

VICTOR  JOSEPH  ETIENNE  JOUY. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  87 

WOMEN  can  rarely  be  deceived,  for  they 
are  accustomed  to  deceive.  ARISTOPHANES. 

THERE  are  no  pleasures  where  women  are 
not.  MARIE  DE  ROMIEU. 

WOMEN'S  tender  hearts  are  much  more 
susceptible  of  good  impressions  than  the 
minds  of  the  other  sex. 

SIR  RICHARD  STEELE. 

COQUETTES  are  like  hunters  who  are  fond 
of  hunting,  but  do  not  eat  the  game. 

ANONYMOUS. 

MARRIAGE  with  a  good  woman  is  a  harbor 
in  the  tempest;  but  with  a  bad  woman,  it 
proves  a  tempest  in  the  harbor. 

J.  PETIT-SENN. 


THE  YOUNG  WIDOW. 

WHETHER  under  the  melancholy  or  the 
happy  circumstances  to  which  we  have 
alluded,  a  young  widow  is  a  very  different 
being  from  what  she  has  ever  been  before  ;  in 
identity  of  person  she  is  the  same,  but  there 
is  no  identity  of  position ;  as  regards  society, 
there  is  no  identity  of  rights,  privileges, 
licenses,  or  liabilities.  The  great  difference 


88  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

as  regards  herself  is,  that,  for  the  first  time 
in  her  life,  she  is  her  own  protector ;  many 
things  that  she  could  not  do  as  a  girl,  and 
dare  not  do  as  a  wife,  are  now  open  to  her. 
She  has  "  been  made  a  woman  of,"  and  is 
a  very  independent  person.  After  languish- 
ing a  fitting  time  in  calm  retirement  and 
seclusion,  having  "that  within  that  passeth 
outward  show,"  she  appears  to  the  world 
decked  in  "  the  trappings  and  the  suits 
of  woe."  We  purposely  use  the  word 
"  decked,"  because  in  its  most  familiar 
sense  it  implies  "  adorned,"  at  least  as 
applied  to  the  "  craft "  we  are  now  con- 
voying. We  should  very  much  like  to  be 
told,  and  very  much  like  to  see,  a  more 
interesting  sight  than  a  young  widow  when, 
after  leaving  her  moorings,  in  proper  "  rig 
and  trim  "  to  prosecute  the  remainder  of 
the  voyage  of  life.  The  black  flag  is  up, 
and  no  doubt  she  means  mischief;  but  all 
is  fair  and  above  board.  No  mystery  is 
made  of  the  metal  she  carries,  the  port  she 
is  bound  for.  She  may  take  a  prize  or 
make  one ;  but  it  must  be  by  gallantry  if  she 
is  captured.  To  drop  metaphor:  a  young 
widow  is,  we  repeat,  an  extremely  delightful 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  89 

and  highly  privileged  creature.  Mark  her 
in  society,  —  we  do  not  care  how  limited  or 
how  extensive,  —  and  she  bears  the  palm  in 
the  interest  that  is  excited.  ...  A  girl  may 
be  very  agreeable  and  "  all  that,"  as  people 
say  when  they  want  to  cut  description  short ; 
but  it  is  impossible  she  can  hold  a  candle  to 
a  young  widow.  She  is  obliged  to  be  cir- 
cumspect in  all  she  says,  —  to  weigh  every 
word,  to  cripple  her  conversation,  lest  she 
should  be  thought  forward ;  but  worse  than  all 
this,  she  is  so  deuced  simple  and  credulous, 
that  a  man  with  a  fine  flowing  tongue  is  apt 
to  mislead  her,  and  place  himself  in  a  false 
position  before  he  gets  through  a  set  of 
quadrilles;  whereas  with  the  other  partner 
it  is  tout  au  contraire.  "  Old  birds  are  not 
to  be  caught  with  chaff;  "  and  old  the  young- 
est widow  is,  in  "  the  ways  of  men,"  compared 
with  the  bread-and-butter  portion  of  the  un- 
married world. 

BENTLEY'S  MISCELLANY. 


IX. 

WOMAN,  in  accordance  with  her  unbroken, 
clear-seeing  nature,  loses  herself  and  what 
she  has  of  heart  and  happiness  in  the  object 
she  loves.  JEAN  PAUL  RICHTER. 

SOCIETY  is  the  book  of  women. 

JEAN  JACQUES  ROUSSEAU. 

WOMEN,  like  princes,  find  few  real  friends. 
LORD  LYTTLETON. 

IN  love  affairs,  a  young  shepherdess  is  a 
better  partner  than  an  old  queen. 

J.  DE  FINOD. 

OUR  ice-eyed  brain-women  are  really  ad- 
mirable, if  we  only  ask  of  them  just  what 
they  can  give,  and  no  more. 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

A  MARRIAGEABLE  girl  is  a  kind  of  merchan- 
dise that  can  be  negotiated  at  wholesale 
only  on  condition  that  110  one  takes  a  part 
at  retail.  ALPHONSE  KARR. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  91 

THEY  say  that  the  best  counsel  is  that  of  a 
woman.  PEDRO  CALDERON  DE  LA  BARCA. 

IT  is  only  the  coward  who  reproaches  as  a 
dishonor  the  love  a  woman  has  cherished  for 
him.  MME.  DE  LAMBERT. 

THERE  is  scarcely  a  single  cause  in  which 
a  woman  is  not  engaged  in  some  way  foment- 
ing the  suit.  DECIMUS  JUNIUS  JUVENALIS. 

Do  not  take  women  from  the  bedside  of 
those  who  suffer ;  it  is  their  post  of  honor. 

MME.  CECILE  FEE. 

IT  is  lucky  for  the  poets  that  their  mis- 
tresses are  not  obliged  to  sit  to  them.  They 
would  never  write  a  line.  LEIGH  HUNT. 

IT  is  easier  for  a  woman  to  defend  her 
virtue  against  men  than  her  reputation  against 
women.  ROCHEBRUNE. 

As  the  faculty  of  writing  is  chiefly  a  mas- 
culine endowment,  the  reproach  of  making 
the  world  miserable  has  been  always  thrown 
upon  the  women.  SAMUEL  JOHNSON. 

TWICE  is  a  woman  dear,  —  when  she  comes 
to  the  house  and  when  she  leaves  it. 

ANONYMOUS. 


92 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 


THE  change  from  the  heroic  to  the  saintly 
ideal  —  from  the  ideal  of  paganism  to  the 
ideal  of  Christianity  —  was  a  change  from  a 
type  which  was  essentially  male  to  one  which 
was  essentially  feminine. 

WILLIAM  EDWARD  HARTPOLE  LECKY. 

WE  look  at  the  one  little  woman's  face  we 
love,  as  we  look  at  the  face  of  our  mother 
earth,  and  see  all  sorts  of  answers  to  our  own 
yearnings.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

THERE  are  women  who  seem  cold  and 
beautiful  stones,  their  hearts  icicles,  their 
tears  frozen  gems  pressed  out  by  injured 
pride.  WILLIAM  ROUNSEVILLE  ALGER. 

WOMAN  conceals  only  what  she  does  not 
know.  PROVERB. 

POSITION,  Wren  said,  is  essential  to  the 
perfecting  of  beauty,  —  a  fine  building  is  lost 
in  a  dark  lane;  a  statue  should  be  in  the 
air :  much  more  true  is  it  of  woman. 

RALPH  WALDO  EMERSON. 

A  WOMAN   should  never  accept  a   lover 
without  the  consent  of  her  heart,  nor  a  hus- 
band without  the  consent  of  her  judgment. 
NINON  DE  LENCLOS. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  93 

THE  plainest  man  who  pays  attention  to 
women  will  sometimes  succeed  as  well  as 
the  handsomest  who  does  not. 

CALEB  C.  COLTON. 

A  WOMAN  can  be  held  by  no  stronger  tie 
than  the  knowledge  that  she  is  loved. 

MME.  DE  MOTTEVILLE. 

As  vivacity  is  the  gift  of  women,  gravity  is 
that  of  man.  JOSEPH  ADDISON. 

BETWEEN  two  beings  susceptible  to  love, 
the  duration  of  love  depends  upon  the  first 
resistance  of  the  woman,  or  the  obstacles 
that  society  puts  in  their  way. 

HONORE  DE  BALZAC. 

A  WOMAN  (of  the  right  kind),  reading  after 
a  man,  follows  him  as  Ruth  followed  the 
reapers  of  Boaz,  and  her  gleanings  are  often 
the  finest  of  the  wheat. 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

THE  man  who  has  taken  one  wife  deserves 
a  crown  of  patience  ;  the  man  who  has  taken 

two  deserves  two  crowns  of  folly. 

PROVERB. 

IF  women  were  humbler,  men  would  be 
honester.  SIR  JOHN  VANBRUGH. 


94  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

THESE  women  are  shrewd  tempters  with 
their  tongues.  WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 

NATURE  makes  fools;  women  make  cox- 
combs. ANONYMOUS. 

No  friendship  is  so  cordial  or  so  delicious 
as  that  of  girl  for  girl ;  no  hatred  so  intense 
and  immovable  as  that  of  woman  for  woman. 
WALTER  SAVAGE  LANDOR. 

WOMEN  are  priestesses  of  the  unknown. 

ANONYMOUS. 

To  give  you  nothing  and  to  make  you  ex- 
pect everything,  to  dawdle  on  the  threshold 
of  love  while  the  doors  are  closed,  —  this  is 
all  the  science  of  a  coquette. 

CHARLES  DE  BERNARD. 

IF  the  heart  of  a  man  is  depressed  with  cares, 
The  mist  is  dispelled  when  a  woman  appears. 

JOHN  GAY. 

MEN  always  say  more  evil  of  women  than 
there  really  is ;  and  there  is  always  more 
than  is  known.  FRANCOIS  ENDES  MEZERAY. 

THE  humor  of  affecting  a  superior  car- 
riage generally  rises  from  a  false  notion  of 
the  weakness  of  the  female  understanding  in 
general.  SIR  RICHARD  STEELE. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGKAM.  95 

IF  ladies  be  but  young  and  fair, 
They  have  the  gift  to  know  it. 

WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 

NEITHER  walls,  nor  goods,  nor  anything  is 
more  difficult  to  be  guarded  than  woman. 

ALEXIS. 

WOMAN  is  mistress  of  the  art  of  completely 
embittering  the  life  of  the  person  on  whom  she 
depends.  JOHANN  WOLFGANG  VON  GOETHE. 

A  WOMAN  submits  to  the  yoke  of  opinion, 
but  a  man  rebels.  j.  DE  FINOD. 

THE  only  thing  that  has  been  taught  suc- 
cessfully to  women  is  to  wear  becomingly 
the  fig-leaf  they  received  from  their  first 
mother.  DENIS  DIDEROT. 

WOMAN  is  like  the  reed  that  bends  to  every 
breeze,  but  breaks  not  in  the  tempest. 

BISHOP  RICHARD  WHATELY. 

WOMEN  are  happier  in  the  love  they  in- 
spire than  in  that  which  they  feel ;  men  are 
just  the  contrary. 

EDME  PIERRE  CHANVOT  DE  BEAUCHENE. 

To  a  susceptible  youth,  like  myself,  brought 
up  in  the  country,  women  are  perfect  divini- 
ties. WASHINGTON  IRVING. 


96  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

How  wisely  it  is  constituted  that  tender  and 
gentle  women  shall  be  our  earliest  guides,  — 
instilling  their  own  spirit ! 

WILLIAM  ELLERY  CHANNING. 

LET  woman  stand  upon  her  female  charac- 
ter as  upon  a  foundation.  CHARLES  LAMB. 

THERE  is  a  very  general  notion  that  if  you 
once  suffer  women  to  eat  of  the  tree  of 
knowledge,  the  rest  of  the  family  will  very 
soon  be  reduced  to  the  same  kind  of  aerial 
and  unsatisfactory  diet.  SYDNEY  SMITH. 

THE  modest  virgin,  the  prudent  wife,  and 
the  careful  matron  are  much  more  service- 
able in  life  than  petticoated  philosophers, 
blustering  heroines,  or  virago  queens. 

OLIVER  GOLDSMITH. 

A  MAN  takes  counsel  with  his  wife,  he 
obeys  his  mother;  he  obeys  her  long  after 
she  has  ceased  to  live ;  and  the  ideas  which 
he  has  received  from  her  become  principles 
stronger  even  than  his  passions. 

AIMI  MARTIN. 

A  HEART  which  has  been  domesticated  by 
matrimony  and  maternity  is  as  tranquil  as  a 
tame  bullfinch.  OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM,  97 

IF  men  knew  all  that  women  think,  they 
would  be  twenty  times  more  audacious. 

ALPHONSE  KARR. 

A  BEAUTIFUL  woman  pleases  the  eye,  a  good 
woman  pleases  the  heart ;  one  is  a  jewel,  the 
other  a  treasure.  NAPOLEON  I. 

A  WOMAN  ought  to  find  the  life  of  her  home 
and  the  companionship  of  her  husband,  and 
later  on  of  her  children,  sufficient. 

MRS.  W.  K.  CLIFFORD. 

THOSE  who  always  speak  well  of  women  do 
not  know  them  enough ;  those  who  always 
speak  ill  of  them  do  not  know  them  at  all. 

CHARLES  PIGAULT-LEBRUN. 

ALL  that  is  purest  and  best  in  man  is  but 

the   echo   of  a  mother's  benediction;    the 

hero's  deeds  are  a  mother's  prayers  fulfilled. 

FREDERICK  W.  MORTON. 


THE  POOR  SHE-RELATION. 

A  POOR  Relation  is  the  most  irrelevant 
thing  in  nature,  —  a  piece  of  impertinent 
correspondency,  —  an  odious  approximation, 
—  a  haunting  conscience,  —  a  preposterous 
shadow,  lengthening  in  the  noontide  of  our 
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98  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

prosperity,  —  an  unwelcome  remembrancer, 

—  a  perpetually  recurring  mortification,  —  a 
drain  on  your  purse,  a  more  intolerable  dun 
on  your  pride,  —  a  drawback  upon  success, 

—  a  rebuke  to  your  rising,  —  a  stain  in  your 
blood,  —  a  blot  on  your  'scutcheon,  —  a  rent 
in  your  garment,  —  a  death's  head  at  your 
banquet,  —  Agathocles'  plot,  —  a  Mordecai 
in  your  gate,  a  Lazarus  at  your  door,  —  a 
lion  in  your  path,  —  a  frog  in  your  chamber, 

—  a  fly  in  your  ointment, — a  mote  in  your 
eye,  —  a  triumph  to  your  enemy,  an  apol- 
ogy to  your   friends,  —  the  one  thing  not 
needful, — the  hail  in  harvest,  —  the  ounce 
of  sour  in  a  pound  of  sweet.  .  .  .  There  is 
a  worse  evil  under  the  sun,  and  that  is  —  a 
female  Poor  Relation.     You  may  do  some- 
thing with  the  other,  you  may  pass  him  off 
tolerably  well ;  but  your  indigent  she-relative 
is  hopeless.     "  He  is  an  old  humorist,"  you 
may   say,    "and   affects    to   go   threadbare. 
His   circumstances    are    better    than    folks 
would  take  them  to  be.     You  are  fond  of 
having  a  Character  at  your  table,  and  truly 
he  is  one."     But  in  the  indications  of  female 
poverty  there  can  be  no  disguise.    No  woman 
dresses  below  herself  from  caprice.    The  truth 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  99 

must  out  without  shuffling.  .  .  .  Her  garb 
is  something  between  a  gentlewoman  and  a 
beggar,  yet  the  former  evidently  predomi- 
nates. She  is  most  provokingly  humble, 
and  ostentatiously  sensible  to  her  inferiority. 
He  may  require  to  be  repressed  sometimes 
—  aliquando  sufflaminandus  erat — but  there 

is  no  raising  her. 

CHARLES  LAMB. 


X. 


THERE  will  be  so  many  more  women  in 
heaven  than  men  that  any  marriage,  except 
of  the  Mormon  kind,  would  be  impossible. 

FREDERICK  SHELDON. 

COQUETTE.  —  A  female  general  who  builds 
her  fame  on  her  advances.  ERNEST  FIELD. 

WHEN,  like  spoiled  children,  women  cry 
for  the  moon,  it  is  because  they  have  heard 
that  the  moon  contains  a  man. 

JUNIUS  HENRI  BROWNE. 

WOMEN  famed  for  their  valor,  their  skill  in 
politics,  or  their  learning,  leave  the  duties  of 
their  own  sex  in  order  to  invade  the  privi- 
leges of  ours.  OLIVER  GOLDSMITH. 

WOMAN  is  fine  for  her  own  satisfaction 
alone ;  man  only  knows  man's  insensibility 
to  a  new  gown.  JANE  AUSTEN. 

WOMEN  in  this  degenerate  age  are  rare, 
to  whom  aught  else  but  sordid  gain  is  dear. 

LUDOVICO  ARIOSTO. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  ioi 

A  WOMAN  who  loves,  however  erring,  can 
never  be  entirely  selfish,  for  love  has  a  human- 
izing influence,  and  a  true  passion  renders 
any  self-sacrifice  easy.  A.  P.  PEABODY. 

A  SECRET  passion  defends  the  heart  of  a 
woman  better  than  her  moral  sense.        . 
RELIF  DE  LA  BRETONNE. 

WOMEN'S  hearts  are  made  of  stout  leather ; 
there 's  a  plaguy  sight  of  wear  in  them. 

T.  C.  HALIBURTON. 

A  WOMAN  who  pretends  to  laugh  at  love  is 
like  the  child  who  sings  at  night  when  he  is 
afraid.  JEAN  JACQUES  ROUSSEAU. 

WOMEN  and  clergymen  have  so  long  been 
in  the  habit  of  using  pretty  words  without 
troubling  themselves  to  understand  them, 
that  they  now  revolt  from  the  effort,  as  if  it 
were  impiety.  JOHN  RUSKIN. 

WOMAN  among  savages  is  a  beast  of  bur- 
den ;  in  Asia  she  is  a  piece  of  furniture ;  in 
Europe  she  is  a  spoiled  child. 

SENLAC  DE  MEILHAN. 

WOMEN  that  are  least  bashful  are  not  in- 
frequently the  most  modest. 

CALEB  C.  COLTON. 


102  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

TRUE  feeling  is  a  rustic  vulgarity  the  flirt 
does  not  tolerate ;  she  counts  its  healthiest 
and  most  honest  manifestation  all  sentiment. 
DONALD  G.  MITCHELL. 

IT  is  difficult  for  a  woman  to  keep  a  secret ; 
and  I  know  more  than  one  man  who  is  a 
woman. 

AUGUST  HKINRICH  JULIUS  LAFONTAINE. 

ALL  the  evil  that  women  have  done  to  us 
comes  from  us,  and  all  the  good  they  have 
done  to  us  comes  from  them. 

AIMI  MARTIN. 

HAVE  a  useful  and  good  wife  in  the  house, 
or  don't  marry  at  all.  EURIPIDES. 

THERE  are  beautiful  flowers  that  are  scent- 
less, and  beautiful  women  that  are  unlovable. 

HOUELLE. 

NONE  can  do  a  woman  worse  despite  than 
to  call  her  old.  LUDOVICO  ARIOSTO. 

WOMAN,  —  erring,  noble  woman ;  first  at 
the  forbidden  tree,  first  at  duty's  call. 

FREDERICK  W.  MORTON. 

HE  who  flatters  women  most  pleases  them 

best,  and   they  are  most  in  love  with  him 

who  they  think  is  most  in  love  with  them. 

LORD  CHESTERFIELD. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  103 

SUITORS  of  a  wealthy  girl  seldom  seek  for 
proof  of  her  past  virtue.  ANONYMOUS. 

ONE  of  the  principal  occupations  of  men 
is  to  divine  women. 

JEAN  CHARLES  DOMINIQUE  LACRETELLE. 

MEN  do  not  always  love  those  they  esteem  ; 
women,  on  the  contrary,  esteem  only  those 
they  love.  S.  DUBAY. 

I  WILL  not  affirm  that  women  have  no 
character ;  rather,  they  have  a  new  one  every 
day.  HEINRICH  HEINE. 

IN  benevolence,  women  excel  in  charity, 
which  alleviates  individual  suffering,  rather 
than  in  philanthropy,  which  deals  with  large 
masses  and  is  more  frequently  employed  in 
preventing  than  in  allaying  calamity. 

WILLIAM  EDWARD  HARTPOLE  LECKY. 

IT  is  usual  in  young  wives,  before  they 
have  been  many  weeks  married,  to  assume  a 
bold,  forward  look  and  manner  of  talking,  as 
if  they  intended  to  signify  to  all  companies 
that  they  were  no  longer  girls. 

JONATHAN  SWIFT. 

THE  only  person  who  can  cure  one  of  a 
woman  is  that  woman  herself.  ANONYMOUS. 


104  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

VIRTUE  is  a  beautiful  thing  in  women  when 
they  don't  go  about  it  like  a  child  with  a 
drum,  making  all  sorts  of  noise  with  it. 

DOUGLAS  JERROLD. 

A  WIDOW  of  forty-five,  whose  satisfaction 
has  been  largely  drawn  from  what  she  thinks 
of  her  own  person,  and  what  she  believes 
others  think  of  it,  requires  a  great  fund  of 
imagination  to  keep  her  spirits  buoyant. 

GEORGE  ELIOT. 

WILES  and  deceits  are  woman's  specialties. 

AESCHYLUS. 

WHAT  man  seeks  in  love  is  woman ;  what 
woman  seeks  in  man  is  love. 

ARSENE  HOUSSAYE. 

INTELLECT  is  to  a  woman's  nature  what 
her  watch-spring  skirt  is  to  her  dress. 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

WITHOUT  woman   man  would   be   rough, 
rude,   solitary,    and   would    ignore    all    the 
graces,  which  are  but  the  smiles  of  love. 
FRANC.OIS  AUGUSTE  DE  CHATEAUBRIAND. 

No  woman  who  is  absolutely  and  entirely 
good,  in  the  ordinary  sense  of  the  word,  gets 
a  man's  most  fervent,  passionate  love. 

MRS.  W.  K.  CLIFFORD. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  105 

IT  is  a  misfortune  for  a  woman  never  to 
be  loved,  but  it  is  a  humiliation  to  be  loved 
no  more. 

CHARLES  DE  SECONDAT  DE  MONTESQUIEU. 

WOMAN  is  the  salvation  or  the  destruction 
of  the  family.  HENRI  FREDERIC  AMIEL. 

AN  old  coquette  has  all  the  defects  of  a 
young  one,  and  none  of  her  charms. 

ANTOINE  DUPUY. 

WOMEN,  like  the  plants  in  the  woods, 
derive  their  softness  and  tenderness  from 
the  shade.  WALTER  SAVAGE  LANDOR. 

WOMEN  dress  less  to  be  clothed  than  to 
be  adorned.  When  alone  before  their  mir- 
rors, they  think  more  of  men  than  of  them- 
selves. ROCHEBRUNE. 

ONE  should  choose  a  wife  with  the  ears 
rather  than  with  the  eyes.  PROVERB. 

THE  woman  we  love  most  is  often  the  one 
to  whom  we  express  it  the  least. 

EDME  PIERRE  CHANVOT  DE  BEAUCHENE. 

WOMAN'S  counsel  is  not  worth  much,  yet 
he  that  despises  it  is  no  wiser  than  he  should 
be.  MIGUEL  DE  CERVANTES. 


106  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

WOMAN  is  the  nervous  part  of  humanity ; 
man,  the  muscular.  JEAN  NOEL  HALLE. 

O  WOMAN,  woman  !  thou  art  formed  to 
bless  the  heart  of  restless  man.  j.  BIRD. 

WOMEN  are  often  ruined  by  their  sensi- 
tiveness and  saved  by  their  coquetry. 

MLLE.  AZAIS. 

MAIDS  must  be  wives  and  mothers  to  ful- 
fil the  entire  and  holiest  end  of  woman's 
being.  FRANCES  ANNE  KEMBLE  BUTLER. 

IT  is  not  always  for  virtue's  sake  that 
women  are  virtuous. 

FRANC.OIS  DE  LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

THE  society  of  women  is  the  element  of 
good  manners.  JOHANN  WOLFGANG  VON  GOETHE. 

WOMAN  is  the  Sunday  of  man. 

JULES  MICHELET. 

IF  a  woman  has  any  malicious  mischief  to 
do,  her  memory  is  immortal. 

TITUS  MACCIUS  PLAUTUS. 

WHEN  women  have  passed  thirty,  the  first 
thing  they  forget  is  their  age;  when  they 
have  attained  the  age  of  forty,  they  have 
entirely  lost  the  remembrance  of  it. 

NINON  DE  LENCLOS. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  107 

EVEN  if  women  were  immortal,  they  could 
never  foresee  their  last  lover. 

HUGUES  FELICITE  ROBERT  DE  LAMENNAIS. 

IT  has  been  justly  observed  that  heroines 
are  best  painted  in  general  terms. 

LEIGH  HUNT. 

THE  man  who  does  not  love  women  is  one 
of  Nature's  blunders,  —  an  anomaly,  an  ag- 
gregation of  crude  material,  an  apology  for 
what  God  intended  him  to  be.  Like  Adam, 
we  must  all  seek  a  missing  rib  in  the  gentler 
sex.  FREDERICK  W.  MORTON. 

MY  children,  in  marriage  there  is  nothing 
good  but  the  day  before.  OCTAVE  FEUILLET. 

NOTHING  is  so  sure  a  cure  for  love  of 
women  as  acquaintance  with  the  men  they 
admire.  JEAN  JACQUES  WEISS. 


NATURE  OF  WOMAN'S  SUPREMACY. 

"  THE  time  will  come,  I  trust,  when  women 
will  no  longer  be  contented  with  the  few 
empty  and  exaggerated  compliments  in  which 
men  pay  them  off,  — '  angelic  creatures  ! ' 
'  poet's  theme ! '  and  so  on ;  stuff  that 
springs  from  what  Diogenes  calls  the  spooney 


108  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

view  of  women,  and  only  applicable  to  the 
young  and  handsome,  —  a  very  small  minor- 
ity. .  .  .  The  supremacy  of  women  in  this 
country  is  like  that  of  the  Mikado  in  Japan, 
—  a  sovereign  sacred  and  irresponsible,  but 
on  condition  of  sitting  still  and  leaving  the 
management  of  affairs,  the  real  business  of 
life,  to  others.  It  is  the  same  theory  of  gov- 
ernment with  which  the  constitutionalists 
tormented  the  late  Louis  Philippe,  —  Le  roi 
rcgne  et  ne  gouverne  pas.  He  was  unwilling 
to  accept  such  a  position,  and  so  am  I.  I 
cannot  take  a  pride  in  insignificance  and 
uselessness,  although  I  confess  with  shame 
that  most  women  do ;  the  result  of  which  is, 
that  we  have  not  the  kind  of  influence  we 
ought  to  have,  and  that  a  real,  hearty,  genu- 
ine respect  for  women  does  not  exist.  In 
every  man's  heart  there  lurks  a  mild  con- 
tempt for  us,  because  of  our  ignorance  of 
business,  politics,  and  practical  matters  gen- 
erally outside  of  the  nursery  and  the  milli- 
ner's shop.  The  best  of  you  look  upon  us 
and  our  doings  as  grown  people  look  at 
pretty  children  and  their  plays, — with  a 
good-natured  feeling  of  superiority,  and  a 
smile  half  pleasure  and  half  pity.  The  truth 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  109 

is  that  men  have  always  despised  us  from  the 
earliest  times.  At  first  we  were  mere  slaves 
and  drudges ;  then  playthings,  if  handsome 
and  lively,  —  something  to  be  brought  on 
with  the  wine  at  a  feast.  Chivalry  —  which  in 
newspaper  rhetoric  means  devotion  to  women 
and  respect  —  knew  little  of  either  when  it 
was  alive  and  vigorous.  The  droits  de  bot- 
tage  et  de  cuissage  alone  are  enough  to  prove 
that.  In  our  times,  indeed,  the  savage  view 
of  woman  as  a  slave  has  been  softened  by 
civilization  into  housekeeper  and  nurse ;  but 
it  still  lingers  in  every  man's  feelings. 
Woman's  mission,  in  his  eyes,  is  simply 
babies ;  to  which  is  superadded  the  duty  of 
making  the  father  comfortable." 

FREDERICK  SHELDON. 


XL 

IF  a  woman  refrains  from  absurd  or  hate- 
ful words  and  acts,  and  if  she  is  beautiful  to 
boot,  we  are  straightway  convinced  that  she 
is  a  paragon  of  wisdom  and  morality. 

COUNT  LYOF  N.  TOLSTOI. 

IF  we  men  require  more  perfection  from 
women  than  from  ourselves,  it  is  doing  them 
honor.  SAMUEL  JOHNSON. 

How  many  women  since  the  days  of  Echo 
and  Narcissus  have  pined  themselves  into  air 
for  the  love  of  men  who  were  in  love  only 
with  themselves?  MRS.  ANNA  JAMESON. 

AULD  Nature  swears,  the  lovely  dears 
Her  noblest  work  she  classes,  O  ! 

Her  'prentice  han'  she  tried  on  man, 
An'  then  she  made  the  lasses,  O  ! 

ROBERT  BURNS. 

THE  castle  that  parleys  and  the  woman 
who  listens  are  ready  to  surrender. 

FRENCH  ADAGE. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  1 1 1 

You  cannot  think  the  buckling  on  of  the 
knight's  armor  by  his  lady's  hand  was  a 
mere  caprice  of  romantic  fashion.  It  is  the 
type  of  an  eternal  truth,  —  that  the  soul's 
armor  is  never  well  set  to  the  heart  unless 
a  woman's  hand  has  braced  it. 

JOHN  RUSKIN. 

STRANGE  that  the  gods  should  have  given 
an  antidote  against  the  venom  of  savage 
serpents  and  none  against  that  of  a  bad 
woman.  EURIPIDES. 

A  WOMAN  is  more  influenced  by  what  she 
divines  than  by  what  she  is  told. 

NINON  DE  LENCLOS. 

WE  never  fall  in  love  with  a  woman,  in 
distinction  from  women,  until  we  can  get  an 
image  of  her  through  a  pinhole. 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

HOWEVER  talkative  a  woman  may  be,  love 
teaches  her  silence.  ROCHEBRUNE. 

WOMEN  always  show  more  taste  in  adorn- 
ing others  than  themselves ;  and  the  reason 
is,  that  their  persons  are  like  their  hearts,  — 
they  read  another's  better  than  they  can 
their  own.  JEAN  PAUL  RICHTER. 


112  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

THERE  is  something  so  gross  in  the  car- 
riage of  some  wives  that  they  lose  their  hus- 
bands' hearts.  EUSTACE  BUDGELL. 

MEN  declare  their  love  before  they  feel  it ; 
women  confess  theirs  only  after  they  have 
proved  it.  NICOLAS  VALENTIN  DE  LATENA. 

WOMAN  has  a  smile  for  every  joy,  and  a 
tear  for  every  sorrow. 

GERMAIN  FRANC.OIS  POULLAIN  DE  SAINT-FOIX. 

THREE  things  a  wise  man  will  not  trust,  — 
the  wind,  the  sunshine  of  an  April  day,  and 
woman's  plighted  faith.  ROBERT  SOUTHEY. 

WOMEN  should  be  careful  of  their  conduct, 
for  appearances  sometimes  injure  them  as 
much  as  faults.  ABB£  GIRARD. 

EXCESS  of  passion  and  the  force  of  love,  — 
arguments  than  which  there  can  be  none 
more  powerful  to  assuage  the  irritation  of  a 
woman's  mind.  TITUS  LIVIUS. 

THE  reason  why  so  few  women  are  touched 
by  friendship  is  that  they  find  it  dull  when 
they  have  experienced  love. 

FRANC.OIS  DE  LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

WHERE  women  are,  the  better  things  are 
implied  if  not  spoken.  A.  BRONSON  ALCOTT. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  113 

A  WOMAN  is  a  well- served  table  that  one 
sees  with  different  eyes  before  and  after  the 
meal.  ANONYMOUS. 

THE  materials  that  go  to  the  making  of 
one  woman  were  set  free  by  the  abstraction 
from  inanimate  nature  of  one  man's-worth 
of  masculine  constituents. 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

WOMEN  especially  are  to  be  talked  to  as 
below  men  and  above  children. 

LORD  CHESTERFIELD. 

WOMEN  are  wise  impromptu,  fools  on 
reflection.  ITALIAN  PROVERB. 

WOMAN'S    tongue    a  tempter?     Perhaps. 
But  men's  willing  ears  woo  the  seduction. 
FREDERICK  W.  MORTON. 

WHEN  joyous,  a  women's  license  is  not 
to  be  endured ;  when  in  terror,  she  is  a 
plague.  AESCHYLUS. 

MODESTY  in  woman  is  a  virtue  most  de- 
serving, since  we  do  all  we  can  to  cure  her 
of  it.  LINGREE. 

WHEN  we  speed  to  the  devil's  house,  woman 
takes  the  lead  by  a  thousand  steps. 

JOHANN  WOLFGANG  VON  GOETHE. 
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114  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

WHEN  a  woman  pronounces  the  name  of 
a  man  but  twice  a  day,  there  may  be  some 
doubt  as  to  the  nature  of  her  sentiments ; 
but  three  times  !  HONORE  DE  BALZAC. 

WOMEN  know  by  nature  how  to  disguise 
their  emotions  far  better  than  the  most  con- 
summate male  courtier  can  do. 

WILLIAM  MAKEPEACE  THACKERAY. 

WOMAN  alone  knows  true  loyalty  of  affec- 
tion. FRIEDRICH  VON  SCHILLER. 

THAT  the  sharper  and  sincerer  feelings  of 
women  make  them  more  capable  than  men 
of  sacrificing  their  interests  to  their  passions, 
less  likely  to  sacrifice  their  passions  to  their 
interests,  and  that  they  are  more  absorbed  by 
their  sympathies  and  antipathies,  admits  of  no 
question.  WILLIAM  ROUNSEVILLE  ALGER. 

To  say  the  truth,  I  never  yet  knew  a 
tolerable  woman  to  be  fond  of  her  own 
sex.  JONATHAN  SWIFT. 

"  I  LIKE  women,"  said  a  clear-headed  man 
of  the  world,  "  they  are  so  finished."  They 
finish  society,  manners,  language.  Form  and 
ceremony  are  their  realm.  They  embellish 
trifles.  RALPH  WALDO  EMERSON. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  115 

AN  opinion  formed  by  a  woman  is  inflex- 
ible ;  the  fact  is  not  half  so  stubborn. 

ANONYMOUS. 

THERE  is  one  thing  admirable  in  women  : 
they  never  reason  about  their  blameworthy 
actions ;  even  in  their  dissimulation  there  is 
an  element  of  sincerity.  HONOR£  DE  BALZAC. 

A  MOTHER  dreads  no  memories,  —  those 
shadows  have  all  melted  away  in  the  dawn 
of  Baby's  smiles.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

HAVE  too  a  woman's  heart ;  which  ever  yet 
Affected  eminence,  wealth,  sovereignty. 

WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 

NATURE  has  said  to  woman :  Be  fair  if 
thou  canst,  be  virtuous  if  thou  wilt;  but 
considerate  thou  must  be. 

PIERRE  AUGUSTE  CARON  DE  BEAUMARCHAIS. 

WOMEN  cannot  see  so  far  as  men  can,  but 
what  they  do  see  they  see  quicker. 

HENRY  THOMAS  BUCKLE. 

THE  more  idle  a  woman's  hand,  the  more 
occupied  her  heart.  S.  DUBAY. 

WOMAN'S  love  is  writ  in  water ; 
Woman's  faith  is  traced  on  sand. 

WILLIAM  EDMONSTOUNE  AYTOUN. 


!l6  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

WOMEN  speak  easily  of  platonic  love ;  but 
while  they  appear  to  esteem  it  highly,  there 
is  not  a  single  ribbon  of  their  toilette  that 
does  not  drive  platonism  from  our  hearts. 

ANTOINE  RICARD. 

IF  woman  did  turn  man  out  of  Paradise, 
she  has  done  her  best  ever  since  to  make  it 
up  to  him.  FREDERICK  SHELDON. 

BORN  under  the  planet  Venus,  women's 
horoscope  tells  them  mankind  was  created  to 
confess  their  charms  and  wear  their  chains. 
With  such  belief,  they  cannot  give  to  one 
that  which  was  designed  for  all. 

JUNIUS  HENRI  BROWNE. 

A  MAN  cannot  possess  anything  that  is 
bettej  than  a  good  woman,  nor  anything 
that  is  worse  than  a  bad  one.  SIMONIDES. 

A  VIRTUOUS  woman  is  a  crown  to  her  hus- 
band ;  but  she  that  maketh  ashamed  is  as 
rottenness  in  his  bones.  SOLOMON. 

WOMEN  never  truly  command  till  they  have 
given  their  promise  to  obey ;  and  they  are 
never  in  more  danger  of  being  made  slaves 
than  when  the  men  are  at  their  feet. 

GEORGE  FARQUHAR. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM:          \  \  7 

WOMEN  govern  us;  let  us  try  to  render 
them  more  perfect.  The  more  they  are  en- 
lightened so  much  the  more  we  shall  be. 
On  the  cultivation  of  the  minds  of  women 
depends  the  wisdom  of  men. 

RICHARD  BRINSLEY  SHERIDAN. 

A  WOMAN  who  is  guided  by  the  head,  and 
not  by  the  heart,  is  a  social  pestilence. 

DE  BALZAC. 


AN  asp  would  render  its  sting  more 
venomous  by  dipping  it  into  the  heart  of  a 
coquette.  A.  POINCELOT. 

VOLUPTUARIES  know  what  they  talk  about 
when  they  profess  not  to  care  for  sense  in 
woman.  LEIGH  HUNT. 


LA  FEMME  PASSEE. 

DRESSED  in  the  extreme  of  youthful  fash- 
ion; her  thinning  hair  dyed  and  crimped 
and  fired  till  it  is  more  like  red  brown  tow 
than  hair ;  her  flaccid  cheeks  ruddled ;  her 
throat  whitened ;  her  bust  displayed,  as  if 
beauty  were  to  be  measured  by  cubic  inches ; 
her  lustreless  eyes  blackened  round  the  lids, 
to  give  the  semblance  of  limpidity  to  the  tar- 


1 1 8  '  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

nished  whites,  —  perhaps  the  pupil  dilated 
by  belladonna,  or  perhaps  a  false  and  fatal 
brilliancy  for  the  moment  given  by  opium, 
or  by  eau  de  cologne,  of  which  she  has  a 
store  in  her  carriage,  and  drinks  as  she 
passes  from  ball  to  ball ;  no  kindly  drapery 
of  lace  or  gauze  to  conceal  the  breadth  of 
her  robust  maturity  or  to  soften  the  dreadful 
shadows  of  her  leanness :  there  she  stands, 
the  wretched  creature  who  will  not  consent 
to  grow  old,  and  who  will  still  affect  to  be 
like  a  fresh,  coquettish  girl,  when  she  is 
nothing  but  la  femme  passee,  —  la  femme 
passee  et  ridicule  into  the  bargain.  There  is 
not  a  folly  for  which  even  the  thoughtless- 
ness of  youth  is  but  a  poor  excuse,  into 
which  she,  in  all  the  plenitude  of  her  abun- 
dant experience,  does  not  plunge.  Wife  and 
mother,  as  she  may  be,  she  flirts  and  makes 
love  as  if  an  honorable  issue  were  open  to 
her  as  to  her  daughter,  or  as  if  she  did  not 
know  to  what  end  flirting  and  making  love 
lead  in  all  ages.  If  we  watch  the  career  of 
such  a  woman,  we  see  how,  by  slow  but  very 
sure  degrees,  she  is  obliged  to  lower  the  stan- 
dard  of  her  adorers,  and  to  take  up  at  last  with 
men  of  inferior  social  position,  who  are  con- 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  119 

tent  to  buy  her  patronage  by  their  devotion. 
To  the  best  men  of  her  own  class  she  can 
give  nothing  that  they  value ;  so  she  barters 
with  snobs,  who  go  into  the  transaction  with 
their  eyes  wide  open.  .  .  .  What  good  in 
life  does  this  kind  of  woman  do?  All  her 
time  is  taken  up,  first,  in  trying  to  make  her- 
self look  twenty  or  thirty  years  younger  than 
she  is,  and  then  in  trying  to  make  others 

believe  the  same. 

SATURDAY  REVIEW. 


XII. 

WHO  trusts  himself  to  woman  or  to  waves 
should  never  hazard  what  he  fears  to  lose. 

JOHN  OLDMIXON. 

THERE  are  three  things  that  women  throw 
away,  —  their  time,  their  money,  and  their 
health.  MARIE  THERESE  RODET  GEOFFRIN. 

THE  pleasant  man  a  woman  will  desire  for 
her  own  sake,  but  the  languishing  lover  has 
nothing  to  hope  from  but  her  pity. 

SIR  RICHARD  STEELE. 

WOMAN  is  an  overgrown  child  that  one 
amuses  with  toys,  intoxicates  with  flattery, 
and  seduces  with  promises. 

MME.  SOPHIE  ARNOULD. 

MEN  will  never  forgive  a  dress  that  is 
badly  cut,  tastelessly  trimmed,  or  suggestive 
of  mauvais  ton.  Every  coquette  is  keenly 
conscious  of  this;  every  innocent  girl  is 
unconsciously  aware  of  this. 

COUNT  LYOF  N.  TOLSTOI. 


WOMAN  /N  EPIGRAM.  121 

TRUE  modesty  protects  a  woman  better 
than  her  garments.  ANONYMOUS. 

WOMAN  is  the  sweetest  present  that  God 
has  given  to  man.  BERNARD  GUYARD. 

CAST  in  so  slight  and  exquisite  a  mould, 
so  mild  and  gentle,  so  pure  and  beautiful, 
that  earth  seemed  not  her  element,  nor  its 
rough  creatures  her  fit  companions. 

CHARLES  DICKENS. 

WHO  is  this,  with  upturned  eyes  of  fathom- 
less love,  the  radiant  paleness  of  ecstasy 
transfusing  her  countenance,  heaven  flood- 
ing her  soul,  the  world  a  forgotten  toy  be- 
neath her  feet?  It  is  the  woman  who,  in 
silence  and  secrecy,  gives  herself  to  God. 

WILLIAM  ROUNSEVILLE  ALGER. 

THE  wife  is  a  constellation  of  virtues; 
she's  the  moon,  and  thou  art  the  man  in 
the  moon.  WILLIAM  CONGREVE. 

SCYLLA  must  have  broken  off  many  excel- 
lent matches  in  her  time,  if  she  insisted  upon 
all  that  loved  her  loving  her  dogs  also. 

CHARLES  LAMB. 

A  LIGHT  wife  doth  make  a  heavy  husband. 
WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 


122  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

TRUST  a  poor  woman  to  dress  her  children 
in  finery.  DONALD  G.  MITCHELL. 

A  WOMAN  is  turned  into  a  love-magnet  by  a 
tingling  current  of  life  running  around  her. 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

WOMEN   and   maidens   must   be   praised, 

whether  truly  or  falsely. 

GERMAN  PROVERB. 

'Tis  the  greatest  misfortune  in  nature  for 
a  woman  to  want  a  confidant. 

GEORGE  FARQUHAR. 

How  many  women  would  laugh  at  the 
funerals  of  their  husbands,  if  it  were  not  the 
custom  to  weep.  ANONYMOUS. 

VENUS  with  ease  engenders  wiles  in  know- 
ing dames ;  but  a  woman  of  simple  capacity, 
by  reason  of  her  small  understanding,  is 
removed  from  folly.  EURIPIDES. 

MODESTY  in  women  has  great  advantages ; 
it  enhances  beauty,  and  serves  as  a  veil  to 
uncomeliness. 

JEAN  GASPARD  DUBOIS  FONTANELLE. 

FOR  women  are  as  roses,  whose  fair  flower 
Being   once  display'd,  doth   fall   that   very 
hour.  WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  123 

OF  all  wild  beasts,  on  earth  or  in  the  sea, 
the  greatest  is  a  woman.  MENANDER. 

ONE  must  tell  women  only  what  one  wants 
to  be  known. 

PIERRE  AUGUSTE  CARON  DE  BEAUMARCHAIS. 

SPEAK  to  women  in  a  style  and  manner 
proper  to  approach  them,  they  never  fail  to 

improve  by  your  counsels. 

SIR  RICHARD  STEELE. 

IN  all  ill-matched  marriages,  the  fault  is 
less  the  woman's  than  the  man's,  as  the 
choice  depended  on  her  the  least. 

MME.  DE  RIEUX. 

LOVE  lessens  the  woman's  refinement  and 
strengthens  the  man's. 

JEAN  PAUL  RICHTER. 

A  GIRL  of  sixteen  accepts  love  ;  a  woman 
of  thirty  incites  it.  ANTOINE  RICARD. 

WHO  takes  an  eel  by  the  tail,  or  a  woman 
at  her  word,  soon  finds  he  holds  nothing. 

PROVERB. 

LADIES,  whose  bright  eyes 
Rain  influence.  JOHN  MILTON. 

HOMELINESS  is  the  best  guardian  of  a  young 
girl's  virtue.  MME.  DE  GENLIS. 


124  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

IN  condemning  the  vanity  of  women,  men 
complain  of  the  fire  they  themselves  have 
kindled.  LINGREE. 

A  PRUDE  ought  to  be  condemned  to  meet 
only  indiscreet  lovers. 

HORACE  NAPOLEON  RAISSON. 

WOMEN  always  speak  the  truth,  but  not  the 
whole  truth.  ITALIAN  PROVERB. 

MANY  young  girls  have  a  strange  audacity 
blended  with  their  instinctive  delicacy. 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

FRIENDSHIP  that  begins  between  a  man 
and  a  woman  will  soon  change  its  name. 

ANONYMOUS. 

THE  happiest  women,  like  the  happiest 
nations,  have  no  history.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

WOMEN  are  formed  by  nature  to  feel  some 
consolation  in  present  troubles,  by  having 
them  always  in  their  mouth  and  on  their 
tongue.  EURIPIDES. 

THERE  is  nothing  fixed,  enduring,  vital,  in 
the  feelings  of  women ;  their  attachments  to 
one  another  are  so  many  pretty  bows  of  rib- 
bon. I  notice  these  light  affections  in  all 
female  friends.  EUGENE  DE  GUERIN. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM,  125 

WOMEN  give  entirely  to  their  affections, 
set  their  whole  fortune  on  the  die,  lose  them- 
selves eagerly  in  the  glory  of  their  husbands 
and  children.  RALPH  WALDO  EMERSON. 

WE  ask  four  things  for  a  woman :  that 
virtue  dwell  in  her  heart,  modesty  in  her 
forehead,  sweetness  in  her  mouth,  and  labor 
in  her  hands.  CHINESE  PROVERB. 

WOMEN  very  rarely  love  truth,  though  they 
love  passionately  what  they  call  "  the  truth," 
or  opinions  they  have  received  from  others, 
and  hate  vehemently  those  who  differ  from 
them. 

WILLIAM  EDWARD  HARTPOLE  LECKY. 

WHEN  a  woman  has  explicitly  condemned 
a  given  action,  she  apparently  gathers  cour- 
age for  its  commission  under  a  little  different 
conditions.  WILLIAM  DEAN  HOWELLS. 

THE  homage  of  a  man  may  be  delightful 
until  he  asks  straight  for  love,  by  which 
woman  renders  homage.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

BEAUTY,  in  woman,  is  power. 

JEAN  DE  ROTROU. 

THE  beauty  of  a  lovely  woman  is  like 
music.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 


126  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

IF  there  be  any  one  whose  power  is  in 
beauty,  in  purity,  in  goodness,  it  is  woman. 

HENRY  WARD  BEECHER. 

GOD  created  woman  only  to  tame  man. 

FRANC.OIS  MARIE  AROUET  DE  VOLTAIRE. 

O  WOMAN  !  it  is  thou  that  causeth  the 
tempests  that  agitate  mankind. 

JEAN  JACQUES  ROUSSEAU. 

THAN  woman  there  is  no  fouler  and  viler 
fiend  when  her  mind  is  bent  on  ill. 

HOMER. 

A  WOMAN  forgives  everything  but  the  fact 
that  you  do  not  covet  her. 

ALFRED  DE  MUSSET. 

IF  God  made  woman  beautiful,  he  made 
her  so  to  be  looked  at,  —  to  give  pleasure 
to  the  eyes  which  rest  upon  her,  —  and  she 
has  no  business  to  dress  herself  as  if  she 
were  a  hitching-post. 

JOSIAH  GILBERT  HOLLAND. 

THE  desire  to  please  is  born  in  woman 
before  the  desire  to  love. 

NINON  DE  LENCLOS. 

OF  all  things  that  man  possesses,  women 
alone  take  pleasure  in  being  possessed. 

FRANC.OIS  DE  MALHERBE. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  127 

No  wonder  priests  give  credence  to 
Joshua's  alleged  power  over  the  sun,  when 
their  own  "  I  pronounce  you  man  and  wife  " 
so  often  has  power  to  change  the  tense  of 
happiness  from  future  to  past. 

FREDERICK  W.  MORTON. 

WOMEN  and  young  men  are  very  apt  to 
tell  what  secrets  they  know  from  the  vanity 
of  having  been  trusted. 

LORD  CHESTERFIELD. 

WOMEN  are  like  pictures :  of  no  value  in 
the  hands  of  a  fool,  till  he  hears  men  of 
sense  bid  high  for  the  purchase. 

GEORGE  FARQUHAR. 


INSIGHT  OF  WOMEN 

IN  that  race  which  is  now  predominant 
over  all  the  other  races  of  men,  it  was  a  cher- 
ished belief  that  women  had  an  oracular 
nature.  They  are  more  delicate  than  men, 
—  delicate  as  iodine  to  light,  —  and  thus 
more  impressionable.  They  are  the  best 
index  of  the  coming  hour.  I  share  this 
belief.  I  think  their  words  are  to  be 
weighed ;  but  it  is  their  inconsiderate  word, 


128  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

—  according  to  the  rule,  "Take  their  first 
advice,  not  their  second :  "  as  Coleridge 
was  wont  to  apply  to  a  lady  for  her  judg- 
ment in  questions  of  taste,  and  accept  it ; 
but  when  she  added,  "  I  think  so,  be- 
cause—  "  "Pardon  me,  madam,"  he  said, 
"  leave  me  to  find  out  the  reasons  for  my- 
self." In  this  sense,  as  more  delicate  mer- 
curies of  the  imponderable  and  immaterial 
influences,  what  they  say  and  think  is  the 
shadow  of  coming  events.  Their  dolls  are 
indicative.  Among  our  Norse  ancestors 
Frigga  was  worshipped  as  the  goddess  of 
women.  "Wierdes  all,"  said  the  Edda, 
"  Frigga  knoweth,  though  she  telleth  them 
never."  That  is  to  say,  all  wisdoms  Woman 
knows,  though  she  takes  them  for  granted, 
and  does  not  explain  them  as  discoveries, 
like  the  understanding  of  man.  Men  re- 
mark figure ;  women  always  catch  the  ex- 
pression. They  inspire  by  a  look,  and  pass 
with  us  not  so  much  by  what  they  say  or  do, 
as  by  their  presence.  They  learn  so  fast 
and  convey  the  result  so  fast  as  to  outrun 
the  logic  of  their  slow  brother  and  make 
his  acquisitions  poor.  'T  is  their  mood  and 
tone  that  is  important.  Does  their  mind 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  129 

misgive  them,  or  are  they  firm  and  cheer- 
ful? Tis  a  true  report  that  things  are 
going  ill  or  well.  And  any  remarkable 
opinion  or  movement  shared  by  woman  will 
be  the  first  sign  of  revolution. 

RALPH  WALDO  EMERSON. 


XIII. 

BEAUTY,  in  a  modest  woman,  is  like  fire  or 
a  sharp  sword  at  a  distance  :  neither  doth 
the  one  burn  nor  the  other  wound  those  that 
come  not  too  near  them. 

MIGUEL  DE  CERVANTES. 

WHAT  woman  desires  is  written  in  heaven. 
MICHAEL  ANGE  DE  LA  CHAUSSEE. 

WOMAN  is  the  highest,  holiest,  most  pre- 
cious gift  to  man.  Her  mission  and  throne 
is  the  family.  JOHN  TODD. 

OF  all  heavy  bodies,  the  heaviest  is  the 

woman  we  have  ceased  to  love. 

PIERRE  EDOUARD  LEMONTEY. 

IF  a  wife  can  induce  herself  to  submit 
patiently  to  her  husband's  mode  of  life,  she 
will  have  no  difficulty  to  manage  him. 

ARISTOTLE. 

MEN  would  be  saints  if  they  loved  God  as 
they  love  women.  SAINT  THOMAS. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  131 

TELL  a  mother  or  her  daughter  the  plain 
truth,  namely,  that  all  her  efforts  are  di- 
rected to  the  one  end  of  catching  a  hus- 
band. Heavens  !  what  an  insult  that  would 
be.  COUNT  LYOF  N.  TOLSTOI. 

WHEREVER  a  true  wife  comes,  this  home  is 
always  round  her.  The  stars  only  may  be 
over  her  head ;  the  glow-worm  in  the  night- 
cold  grass  may  be  the  only  fire  at  her  foot ; 

but  home  is  yet  wherever  she  is. 

JOHN  RUSKIN. 

How  little  do  lovely  women  know  what 
awful  beings  they  are  in  the  eyes  of  inex- 
perienced youth  !  WASHINGTON  IRVING. 

DURING  their  youth  women  wish  to  be 
treated  as  divinities ;  they  adore  the  ideal ; 
they  cannot  bear  the  idea  of  being  what 
Nature  wishes  them  to  be.  ANONYMOUS. 

A  SPIRIT  pure  as  hers 
Is  always  pure,  even  while  it  errs  : 
As  sunshine,  broken  in  the  rill, 
Though  turned  astray,  is  sunshine  still. 

THOMAS  MOORE. 

LOVE  is  a  bird  that  sings  in  the  heart  of  a 
woman.  ALPHONSE  KARR. 


132  WOMAN  IN  EPIGKAM. 

A  WOMAN  of  mind  so  superior  that  the 
mind  never  pretends  to  efface  the  heart,  is 
less  intoxicated  with  flattery  than  a  man 
equally  exposed  to  it.  It  is  the  strength  of 
her  heart  that  keeps  her  head  sober. 

EDWARD  BULWER-LYTTON. 

WOMAN'S  happiness  is  in  obeying.  She 
objects  to  men  who  abdicate  too  much. 

JULES  MICHELET. 

NATURE  sent  woman  into  the  world  with 
this  bridal  dower  of  love. 

JEAN  PAUL  RICHTER. 

THE  moral  amelioration  of  man  consti- 
tutes the  chief  mission  of  women. 

AUGUSTS  COMTE. 

MOST  ladies  who  have  had  what  is  con- 
sidered as  an  education  have  no  idea  of  an 
education  progressive  through  life. 

JOHN  FOSTER. 

WOMEN  like  balls  and  assemblies,  as  a 
hunter  likes  a  place  where  game  abounds. 

NICOLAS  VALENTIN  DE  LATENA. 

FORTUNE  rules  in  nuptials ;  women  are  as 
like  to  turn  out  badly  as  to  prove  a  source  of 
joy.  EURIPIDES. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  133 

ONE  of  the  sweetest  pleasures  of  a  woman 
is  to  cause  regret.  PAUL  CHEVALIER. 

MAN  without  woman  is  head  without  body ; 
woman  without  man  is  body  without  head. 

GERMAN  PROVERB. 

WRINKLES  disfigure  a  woman  less  than  ill-    v 
nature.  ANTOINE  DUPUY. 

I  AM  sure  I  do  not  mean  it  an  injury  to 
women  when  I  say  there  is  a  sort  of  sex  in 
souls.  SIR  RICHARD  STEELE. 

A  WOMAN,  when  she  has  passed  forty,  be- 
comes an  illegible  scrawl;  only  an  old 
woman  is  capable  of  divining  old  women. 

HONORE  DE  BALZAC. 

WHAT  is  civilization?  I  answer,  the  power 
of  good  women.  RALPH  WALDO  EMERSON. 

SCIENCE  seldom  renders  men  amiable ; 
women,  never. 

EDME  PIERRE  CHANVOT  DE  BEAUCHENE. 

HE  's  a  fool,  who  thinks  by  force  or  skill 
To  turn  the  current  of  a  woman's  will. 

WILLIAM  TUKE. 

THE  egotism  of  woman  is  always  for  two. 

MME.  DE  STAEL. 


134  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

THE  wisest  woman  you  talk  with  is  igno- 
rant of  something  that  you  know,  but  an  ele- 
gant woman  never  forgets  her  elegance. 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

A  WIDOW  is  like  a  frigate  of  which  the  first 
captain  has  been  shipwrecked. 

ALPHONSE  KARR. 

WHERE  women  are,  are  all  kinds  of  mis- 
chief. MENANDER. 

WOMAN  is  the  symbol  of  moral  and  physi- 
cal beauty.  THEOPHILE  GAUTIER. 

No  man  knows  what  the  wife  of  his  bosom 
is  —  no  man  knows  what  a  ministering  angel 
she  is  —  until  he  has  gone  with  her  through 
the  fiery  trials  of  this  world. 

WASHINGTON  IRVING. 

IT  is  to  woman  that  the  heart  appeals 
when  it  needs  consolation. 

CHARLES  ALBERT  DEMOUSTIER. 

IRREGULAR  vivacity  of  temper  leads  astray 
the  hearts  of  ordinary  women  in  the  choice 
of  their  lovers  and  the  treatment  of  their 
husbands.  JOSEPH  ADDISON. 

A  WOMAN  without  beauty  knows  but  half  of 
life.  MME.  DE  MONTARAN. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  135 

THE  only  confidence  that  one  can  repose 
in  the  most  discreet  woman  is  the  confidence 
of  her  beauty.  CHARLES  LE  MESLE. 

HOLY  Madonna !  It  seems  as  if  widows 
had  nothing  to  do  now  but  to  buy  their  cof- 
fins, and  think  it  a  thousand  years  till  they 
get  into  them,  instead  of  enjoying  themselves 
a  little  when  they  've  got  their  hands  free  for 
the  first  time.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

A  KNOT  of  ladies  got  together  by  them- 
selves is  a  very  school  of  impertinence  and 
detraction,  and  it  is  well  if  those  be  the 
worst.  JONATHAN  SWIFT. 

As  the  sea  defends  the  earth,  a  wall  the 
roof,  a  king  the  nation,  so  does  modesty  a 
woman.  CHANAK  PROVERB. 

FROM  many  a  woman's  fortune  this  truth 
is  clear  as  day  :  that  falsely  smiling  Pleasure 
with  Pain  requites  us  ever. 

NlBELUNGENLIED. 

HALF  the  sorrows  of  women  would  be 
averted  if  they  could  repress  the  speech 
they  know  to  be  useless,  —  nay,  the  speech 
they  have  resolved  not  to  utter. 

GEORGE  ELIOT. 


136  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

MEN  know  that  women  are  an  over-match 
for  them,  and  therefore  choose  the  weakest 
or  most  ignorant.  SAMUEL  JOHNSON. 

WOMAN'S  sensibility  lights  up,  and  quivers 
and  falls,  like  the  flame  of  a  sea-coal  fire. 

DONALD  G.  MITCHELL. 

THE  weakness  of  woman  gives  to  some 
men  a  victory  that  their  merit  would  never 
gain.  ANONYMOUS. 

WOMEN  like  brave  men  exceedingly,  but 
audacious  men  still  more.  CHARLES  LE  MESLE. 

A  WOMAN  that  is  ill-treated  has  no  refuge 
in  her  griefs  but  in  silence  and  secrecy. 

SIR  RICHARD  STEELE, 

CAPABLE  of  all  kinds  of  devotion,  and  of 
all  kinds  of  treason,  "  Monster  incomprehen- 
sible" raised  to  the  second  power,  woman 
is  at  once  the  delight  and  the  terror  of 
man.  HENRI  FREDERIC  AMIEL. 

THERE  are  only  two  good  women  in  the 
world :  one  of  them  is  dead,  and  the  other 
is  not  to  be  found.  GERMAN  PROVERB. 

THE  most  beautiful  object  in  the  world,  it 
will  be  allowed,  is  a  beautiful  woman. 

THOMAS  BABINGTON  MACAULAY. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  137 

LOVE  has  no  such  sacredness,  is  incapable 
of  such  exaltation  with  man  as  it  has  and  is 
with  woman.  To  him  it  is  the  appanage  of 
egotism ;  it  is  flattered  vanity ;  it  is  selfish- 
ness glossed  with  sentiment.  He  loves  to  be 
loved.  She  loves  to  love. 

JUNIUS  HENRI  BROWNE. 

No  woman  can  be  handsome  by  the  force 
of  features  alone,  any  more  than  she  can  be 
witty  only  by  the  help  of  speech. 

JOHN  HUGHES. 

EVERY  pretty  girl  one  sees  is  a  reminis- 
cence of  the  garden  of  Eden. 

FREDERICK  SHELDON. 

THE  Marys  who  bring  ointment  for  our 
feet  get  but  little  thanks. 

WILLIAM  MAKEPEACE  THACKERAY. 

WOMEN'S  faces  are  pages  of  divine  revela- 
tion ;  and  smiles,  glances,  blushes,  and  frowns 
are  the  punctuation  marks.  The  blush  is 
the  exclamation  point,  and  the  frown  means 
a  full  stop.  FREDERICK  W.  MORTON. 

WE  censure  the  inconstancy  of  women 
when  we  are  the  victims ;  we  find  it  charm- 
ing when  we  are  the  objects. 

Louis  CLAUDE  JOSEPH  DESNOYERS 


138  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

MOTHER  is  the  name  for  God  in  the  lips 
and  hearts  of  little  children. 

WILLIAM  MAKEPEACE  THACKERAY. 

CLEOPATRA  is  born  again  incessantly,  eter- 
nal symbol  of  the  weakness  of  man  before 
the  power  of  woman.  PIERRE  JOSEPH  CANTEL. 


WOES  OF   FADED   BEAUTY. 

THE  condition  of  a  young  woman  who  has 
never  thought  or  heard  of  any  other  excel- 
lence than  beauty,  and  whom  the  sudden 
blast  of  disease  wrinkles  in  her  bloom,  is 
indeed  sufficiently  calamitous.  She  is  at 
once  deprived  of  all  that  elated  her  pride, 
or  animated  her  activity ;  all  that  filled  her 
days  with  pleasure  and  her  nights  with  hope ; 
all  that  gave  gladness  to  the  present  hour,  or 
brightened  her  prospects  of  futurity.  It  is 
perhaps  not  in  the  power  of  man,  whose 
attention  has  been  divided  by  diversity  of 
pursuits,  and  who  has  not  been  accustomed 
to  derive  from  others  much  of  his  happiness, 
to  imagine  to  himself  such  helpless  destitu- 
tion, such  dismal  inanity.  Every  object  of 
pleasing  contemplation  is  at  once  snatched 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  139 

away,  and  the  soul  finds  every  receptacle  of 
ideas  empty,  or  filled  only  with  the  memory 
of  joys  that  can  return  no  more,  —  all  the 
gloomy  privation,  or  impotent  desire ;  the 
faculties  of  anticipation  slumbering  in  de- 
spondency, or  the  powers  of  pleasure  mutiny 
for  employment.  I  was  so  little  able  to  find 
entertainment  for  myself,  that  I  was  forced  in 
a  short  time  to  venture  abroad,  as  the  solitary 
savage  is  driven  by  hunger  from  his  cavern. 
I  entered  with  all  the  humility  of  disgrace 
into  assemblies,  where  I  had  lately  sparkled 
with  gayety,  and  towered  with  triumph.  I 
was  not  wholly  without  hope,  that  dejection 
had  misrepresented  me  to  myself,  and  that 
the  remains  of  my  former  face  might  yet  have 
some  attraction  and  influence ;  but  the  first 
circle  of  visits  convinced  me,  that  my  reign 
was  at  an  end ;  that  life  and  death  were  no 
longer  in  my  hands ;  that  I  was  no  more  to 
practise  the  glance  of  command,  or  the 
frown  of  prohibition ;  to  receive  the  tribute 
of  sighs  and  praises,  or  be  soothed  with  the 
gentle  murmurs  of  amorous  timidity.  My 
opinion  was  now  unheard,  and  my  proposals 
were  unregarded ;  the  narrowness  of  my 
knowledge  and  my  sentiments  was  easily 


140  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

discovered,  when  the  eyes  were  no  longer 
engaged  against  the  judgment.  .  .  .  Though 
the  negligence  of  the  men  was  not  very 
pleasing  when  compared  with  vows  and  ado- 
ration, yet  it  was  far  more  supportable  than 
the  insolence  of  my  own  sex.  .  .  .  Some 
soothed  me  with  the  observation  that  none 
can  tell  how  soon  my  case  may  be  her  own ; 
and  some  thought  it  proper  to  receive  me 
with  mournful  tenderness,  formal  condo- 
lence, and  consolatory  blandishments.  Thus 
was  I  every  day  harassed  with  all  the 
stratagems  of  well-bred  malignity. 

SAMUEL  JOHNSON. 


XIV. 

WHEN  a  world  of  men 
Could  not  prevail  with  all  their  oratory, 
Yet  hath  a  woman's  kindness  overruled. 
WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 

WHEN  one  writes  of  woman  he  must  re- 
serve the  right  to  laugh  at  his  ideas  of  the 
day  before.  ANTOINE  RICARD. 

WHO  hath  a  fair  wife  hath  need  of  more 
than  two  eyes.  PROVERB. 

MEN  bestow  compliments  only  on  women 
who  deserve  none.  MME.  BACHI. 

WOMAN  is  more  the  companion  of  her  own 
thoughts  and  feelings ;  and  if  they  are  turned 
to  ministers  of  sorrow,  where  shall  she  look 
for  consolation?  WASHINGTON  IRVING. 

VANITY,  shame,  and,  above  all,  temper- 
ament often  make  the  valor  of  men  and  the 
virtue  of  women. 

FRANC.OIS  DE  LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. 


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142 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 


BACHELORS  are  providential  beings ;  God 
(^    created  them  for  the  consolation  of  widows 
and  the  hope  of  maids.  j.  DE  FINOD. 

WOULD  you  hurt  a  woman  most,  aim  at 
her  affections.  LEW  WALLACE. 

A  WISE  man  ought  often  to  admonish  his 
wife,  to  reprove  her  seldom,  but  never  to  lay 
hands  on  her.  MARCUS  AURELIUS. 

A  WOMAN  of  honor  should  never  suspect 
another  of  things  she  would  not  do  herself. 
MARGUERITE  DE  VALOIS. 

WE  only  demand  that  a  woman  should  be 
womanly ;  which  is  not  being  exclusive. 

LEIGH  HUNT. 

MAN  forsakes  Christianity  in  his  labors ; 
woman  cherishes  it  in  her  solitudes  and  trials. 
Man  lives  by  repelling,  woman  by  enduring, 
—  and  here  Christianity  meets  her. 

WILLIAM  ELLERY  CHANNING. 

WOMEN  for  the  most  part  do  not  love  us.  \ 
They  do  not  choose  a  man  because  they  love 
him,  but  because  it  pleases  them  to  be  loved 
by  him.  They  love  love  of  all  things  in  the 
world,  but  there  are  very  few  men  whom 
they  love  personally.  ALPHONSE  KARR. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  143 

IT  is  not  easy  to  be  a  widow ;  one  must 
resume  all  the  modesty  of  girlhood,  without 
being  allowed  even  to  feign  ignorance. 

iM.MK.  DE  GlRARDIN. 

A  WOMAN,  if  she  be  really  your  friend,  will 
have  a  sensitive  regard  for  your  character, 
honor,  repute.  She  will  seldom  counsel  you 
to  do  a  shabby  thing ;  for  a  woman  friend 
always  desires  to  be  proud  of  you. 

WILLIAM  ROUNSEVILLE  ALGER. 

A  WOMAN'S  hopes  are  woven  as  sunbeams ; 
a  shadow  annihilates  them. 

GEORGE  ELIOT. 

SHE  was  in  the  lovely  bloom  and  spring- 
time of  womanhood,  —  at  that  age  when,  if 
ever,  angels  be,  for  God's  purposes,  enthroned 
in  mortal  forms,  they  may  be,  without  im- 
piety, supposed  to  abide  in  such  as  hers. 

CHARLES  DICKENS. 

/  IT  is  women's  way.  They  always  love  color 
I  better  than  form,  rhetoric  better  than  logic, 
I  priestcraft  better  than  philosophy,  and  flour- 
/  ishes  better  than  figures.  ANONYMOUS. 

A  PRUDE  exhibits  her  virtue  in  word  and 
manner ;  a  virtuous  woman  shows  hers  in 
her  conduct.  JEAN  DE  LA  BRUYERE. 


X 


144  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM, 

OR  light  or  dark,  or  short  or  tall, 
She  sets  a  springe  to  snare  them  all; 
All's  one  to  her  —  above  her  fan 
She  'd  make  sweet  eyes  at  Caliban. 

THOMAS  BAILEY  ALDRICH. 

TEARS  are  the  strength  of  women. 

CHARLES  DE  SAINT-EVREMOND. 

A  WOMAN'S  best  qualities  do  not  reside  in 
her  intellect,  but  in  her  affections.  She  gives 
refreshment  by  her  sympathies  rather  than 
by  her  knowledge.  SAMUEL  SMILES. 

A  WOMAN'S  thought  runs  before  her  ac- 
tions. WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 

IT  is  valueless  to  a  woman  to  be  young 
unless  pretty,  or  to  be  pretty  unless  young. 

FRANC.OIS  DE  LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

THE  reputation  of  a  woman  may  be  com- 
pared to  a  mirror,  shining  and  bright,  but 
liable  to  be  sullied  by  every  breath  that 
comes  near  it.  MIGUEL  DE  CERVANTES. 

MANY  men  kill  themselves  for  love,  but 
many  more  women  die  of  it. 

PIERRE  EDOUARD  LEMONTEY. 

SILENCE  and  modesty  are  the  best  orna- 
ments of  women.  EURIPIDES. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  145 

THE  brain-women  never  interest  us  like 
the  heart- women;  white  roses  please  less 
than  red.  OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

MAIDENS,   like   moths,   are   ever  caught  by 

glare, 
And  Mammon  wins  his  way  where  seraphs 

might  despair.  LORD  BYRON. 

A  WOMAN  is  seldom  roused  to  great  and 
courageous  exertion  but  when  something 
most  dear  to  her  is  in  immediate  danger. 

JOANNA  BAILLIE. 

A  MAN  can  keep  another  person's  secret 
better  than  his  own;  a  woman,  on  the  con- 
trary, keeps  her  secret  though  she  blabs  all 
others.  JEAN  DE  LA  BRUYERE. 

MEN  speak  of  what  they  know;  women 
of  what  pleases  them. 

JEAN  JACQUES  ROUSSEAU. 

A  WOMAN  for  a  general,  and  the  soldiers 
will  be  women.  LATIN  PROVERB. 

COQUETRY  is  the  desire  to  please,  without 
the  want  of  love.  ROCHEPEDRE. 

BEFORE  marriage,  woman  is  a  queen ;  after 
marriage,  a  subject.  ANONYMOUS. 


146  WOMAN'  IN  EPIGRAM. 

COQUETRY  is  a  continual  lie,  which  renders 
a  woman  more  contemptible  and  more  dan- 
gerous than  a  courtesan  who  never  lies. 

BERNARD  DE  VARENNES. 

THE  test  of  civilization  is  the  estimate  of 
woman.  GEORGE  WILLIAM  CURTIS. 

PROVIDED  a  woman  be  well  principled,  she 
has  dowry  enough. 

TITUS  MACCIUS  PLAUTUS. 

THE  more  women  have  risked,  the  more 
they  are  ready  to  sacrifice. 

CHARLES  PINEAU  DUCLOS. 

WOMEN'S  eyes  are  armed  with  micro- 
scopes to  see  all  the  little  defects  and  dis- 
similarities which  can  irritate  and  injure 
their  friendships.  Hence  there  are  so  many 
feminine  friends  easily  provoked  to  mutual 
criticisms  and  recriminations. 

WILLIAM  ROUNSEVILLE  ALGER. 

A  FLATTERED  woman  is  always  indulgent. 
ANDRE  CHENIER. 

FAIR  to  no  purpose,  artful  to  no  end ; 
Young  without  lovers,  old  without  a  friend ; 
A  fop  their  passion,  but  their  prize  a  sot ; 
Alive,  ridiculous ;  and  dead,  forgot. 

ALEXANDER  POPE. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  147 

FRIENDSHIP  between  two  youths  is  martial, 
adventurous,  a  trumpet-blast  or  a  bugle-air ; 
friendship  between  two  girls  is  poetic,  con- 
templative, the  sigh  of  a  harp-string  or  the 
swell  of  an  organ-pipe. 

WILLIAM  ROUNSEVILLE  ALGER. 

SOME  cunning  men  choose  fools  for  their 
wives,  thinking  to  manage  them,  but  they 
always  fail.  SAMUEL  JOHNSON. 

THE  supreme  beauty  of  Greek  art  is  rather 
male  than  female. 

JOHANN  JOACHIM  WINCKELMANN. 

THE  man  is  the  head  of  the  woman,  but 
she  rules  him  by  her  temper. 

RUSSIAN  PROVERB. 

WOMEN  are  in  general  more  addicted  to 
the  petty  forms  of  vanity,  jealousy,  spiteful- 
ness,  and  ambition,  and  they  are  also  inferior 
to  men  in  active  courage. 

WILLIAM  EDWARD  HARTPOLE  LECKY. 

CERTAIN  importunities  always  please  wo- 
men, even  when  the  importuner  does  not 
please.  ANONYMOUS. 

WOMEN  are  too  imaginative  and  sensitive 
to  have  much  logic.  MME.  DU  DEFFAND. 


148  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

IT  is  difficult  for  a  woman  ever  to  try  to  be 
anything  good  when  she  is  not  believed  in, 
—  when  it  is  always  supposed  that  she  must 
be  contemptible.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

WOMAN'S  beauty,  the  forest's  echo,  and 
rainbows  soon  pass  away. 

GERMAN  PROVERB. 

A  COQUETTE  is  one  that  is  never  to  be  per- 
suaded out  of  the  passion  she  has  to  please, 
nor  out  of  a  good  opinion  of  her  own 
beauty.  JOSEPH  ADDISON. 

THE  vows  that  woman  makes  to  her  fond 
lover  are  only  fit  to  be  written  on  air  or  on 
the  swiftly  running  stream. 

CAIUS  VALERIUS  CATULLUS. 

WHEN  a  lady  walks  the  streets,  she  leaves  her 
virtuous-indignation  countenance  at  home. 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 


WOMEN'S  GREAT  NEED. 

IF  one  tenth  of  the  efforts  which  women 
now  make  to  fill  their  time  with  amusements 
or  to  gratify  outward  ambition  were  devoted 
to  personal  improvement  and  to  the  culti- 
vation of  high-toned  friendships  with  each 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 


149 


other,  it  would  do  more  than  anything  else 
to  enrich  and  embellish  their  lives,  and  to 
crown  them  with  contentment.  Their  char- 
acters would  thus  be  elevated,  their  hearts 
warmed,  their  minds  stored,  their  manners 
refined,  and  kindness  and  courtesy  infused 
into  their  intercourse.  Nothing  else  will 
ever  add  to  society  the  freshness,  variety, 
and  stimulant  charm,  the  noble  truths  and 
aspirations,  the  ingenuous  co-operating  affec- 
tions, whose  absence  at  present  makes  it 
often  so  deceitful  and  repulsive,  so  barren 
and  wearisome.  The  relish  of  existence  is 
destroyed,  the  glory  of  the  universe  dark- 
ened, to  multitudes  of  tender  and  high- 
souled  persons  by  the  loathsome  insincerity 
and  treachery,  the  frivolous  fickleness,  the 
petty  suspicions  and  envies,  and  the  incom- 
petent judgments  which  they  are  constantly 
meeting.  These  superficial  and  miserable 
vices  of  common  society  disenchant  the  soul, 
and  dry  up  the  springs  of  love  and  hope. 
They  are  fatal  to  that  magnanimous  wisdom 
and  that  trustful  sympathy  which  compose  at 
once  the  brightest  ornaments  of  our  nature 
and  the  costliest  treasures  of  experience. 
Ah !  if,  in  place  of  them,  we  could  every- 


150  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM, 

where  meet  the  honest  hand,  the  ogenjieart, 
theserious  mindj  the^  frank  voice,  the  up- 
ward  eye^  the  emulous  andhelpful  soul 
largely  endowed  with  knowledge  andrever- 
ence !  Then  one  would  never  be  troubled 
with  that  frightfully  depressing  feeling,  —  the 
feeling  that  there  is  nothing  worth  living  for. 
Verily,  the  most  dismal  of  all  deaths  is  to  die 
from  lack  of  sufficient  motive  for  living. 
And  is  it  not  to  be  feared  that  many  in  our 
age  die  this  death? 

WILLIAM  ROUNSEVILLE  ALGER. 


XV. 

WOMAN,  divorced  from  home,  wanders 
unfriended  like  a  waif  upon  the  wave. 

JOHANN  WOLFGANG  VON  GOETHE. 

WOMEN  are  right  to  crave  beauty  at  any 
price,  since  beauty  is  the  only  merit  that 
men  do  not  contest  with  them. 

ANTOINE  DUPUY. 

YOUR  true  flirt  plays  with  sparkles;  her 
heart,  much  as  there  is  of  it,  spends  itself 
in  sparkles ;  she  measures  it  to  sparkle,  and 
habit  grows  into  nature. 

DONALD  G.  MITCHELL. 

THE  prejudices  of  men  emanate  from  the 
mind,  and  may  be  overcome ;  the  prejudices 
of  women  emanate  from  the  heart,  and  are 
impregnable. 

JEAN  BAPTISTE  DE  BOYER  D'ARGENS. 

WOMEN  are  the  poetry  of  the  world  in  the 
same  sense  as  the  stars  are  the  poetry  of 
heaven.  FRANCIS  HARGRAVE. 


152  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

THE  weaknesses  of  women  have  been  given 
them  by  Nature,  to  exercise  the  virtues  of 
men.  MME.  NECKER. 

THE  beauty  of  some  women  has  days  and 
seasons,  and  depends  upon  accidents  which 
diminish  or  increase  it. 

MIGUEL  DE  CERVANTES. 

WE  meet  in  society  many  attractive  women 
whom  we  would  fear  to  make  our  wives. 

COLIN  D'HARLEVILLE. 

THE  woman  who  plays  with  the  love  of  a 
loyal  man  is  a  curse ;  she  may  close  his  heart 
forever  against  all  confidence  in  her  sex. 

ANONYMOUS. 

A  WOMAN  with  whom  one  discusses  love  is 
always  in  expectation  of  something. 

A.  POINCELOT. 

IT  is  the  male  that  gives  charms  to  woman- 
kind, that  produces  an  air  in  their  faces,  a 
grace  in  their  motions,  a  softness  in  their 
voices,  and  a  delicacy  in  their  complexions. 

JOSEPH  ADDISON. 

IN  life,  woman  must  wait  until  she  is  asked 
to  love,  as  in  a  salon  she  waits  for  an  invita- 
tion to  dance.  ALPHONSE  KARR. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  153 

A  WIFE  !  a  mother  !  —  two  magical  words, 
comprising  the  sweetest  source  of  man's 
felicity.  Theirs  is  the  reign  of  beauty,  of 
love,  of  reason,  —  always  a  reign. 

AIMI  MARTIN. 

COULD  we  make  her  as  the  man, 
Sweet  love  were  slain,  whose  dearest  bond 

is  this : 
Not  like  to  like,  but  like  in  difference. 

ALFRED  TENNYSON. 

WOMAN  is  the  dwelling-place  of  religion, 
and  communicates  it  to  the  young. 

WILLIAM  ELLERY  CHANNING. 

THE  first  and  chief  thing  that  should  be 
looked  for  in  a  woman  is  fear. 

COUNT  LYOF  N.  TOLSTO!. 

FOR  the  hero  of  her  worship  woman  has 
the  meekness  of  the  dove,  the  devotion  of 
the  saint ;  for  his  safety  in  peril,  for  his  res- 
cue in  misfortune,  her  vain  sense  imbibes 
the  sagacity  of  the  serpent,  her  weak  heart 
the  courage  of  the  lioness. 

EDWARD  BULWER-LYTTON. 

A  WOMAN  fascinates  a  man  quite  as  often 
by  what  she  overlooks  as  by  what  she  sees. 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 


154  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

WOMEN  have  no  fear  of  marriage,  because 
they  are  so  occupied  in  imagining  the  hap- 
piness it  may  bring  them  that  they  never 
think  of  the  possible  misery  it  includes. 

ANONYMOUS. 

DEVOTION  is  the  last  love  of  women. 

CHARLES  DE  SAINT-EVREMOND. 

THE  laughter,  the  tears,  and  the  song  of  a 
woman  are  equally  deceptive. 

LATIN  PROVERB. 

A  WOMAN'S  lot  is  made  for  her  by  the  love 
she  accepts.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

WOMAN  is  an  idol  that  man  worships  until 
he  throws  it  down.  ANONYMOUS. 

SHE  who  dresses  for  others  beside  her  hus- 
band marks  herself  a  wanton.  EURIPIDES. 

WITH  soft  persuasive  prayers  woman  wields 
the  sceptre  of  the  life  which  she  charmeth. 

FRIEDRICH  VON  SCHILLER. 

MEN  are  the  cause  of  women's  dislike  for 
one  another.  JEAN  DE  LA  BRUYERE. 

THE  beautiful  woman  always  gives  me  joy, 
and  a  high  mind,  too,  if  I  think  what  she 
does  for  me.  REINMAR. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  155 

WOMEN  have  the  genius  of  charity.  A  man 
gives  but  his  gold ;  a  woman  adds  to  it  her 
sympathy.  ERNEST  WILFRID  LEGOUVE. 

WOMAN'S  power  is  over  the  affections.  A 
beautiful  dominion  is  hers,  but  she  risks  its 
forfeiture  when  she  seeks  to  extend  it. 

BOVEE. 

To  remain  virtuous,  a  man  has  only  to 
combat  his  own  desires ;  a  woman  must 
resist  her  own  inclinations  and  the  continual 
attack  of  man.  NICOLAS  VALENTIN  DE  LATENA. 

A  CUNNING  woman  is  a  knavish  fool. 

LORD  LYTTLETON. 

A  WOMAN  often  thinks  she  regrets  the 
lover,  when  she  only  regrets  the  love. 

FRANC.OIS  DE  LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

EVEN  the  satyrs,  like  men,  in  one  way  or 
another,  could  win  the  love  of  women. 

RICHARD  MALCOLM  JOHNSTON. 

You  wish  to  create  Eve  over  again,  or 
rather  to  call  forth  a  female  Adam.  I 
object.  FREDERICK  SHELDON. 

LET  a  man  pray  that  none  of  his  woman- 
kind should  form  a  just  estimation  of  him. 

WILLIAM  MAKEPEACE  THACKERAY. 


156  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

THE  evil  in  women  is  usually  communi- 
cated by  men.  Much  of  the  deceit  of  which 
they  are  accused  is  the  effect  of  masculine 
inoculation.  JUNIUS  HENRI  BROWNE. 

THE  lover  never  sees  personal  resem- 
blances in  his  mistress  to  her  kindred  or  to 
others.  RALPH  WALDO  EMERSON. 

THE  friendship  of  a  man  is  often  a  sup- 
port; that  of  a  woman  is  always  a  conso- 
lation. ROCHEPEDRE. 

WOMAN  is  the  blood  royal  of  life  ;  let  there 
be  slight  degrees  of  precedence  among  them, 
but  let  them  all  be  sacred. 

ROBERT  BURNS. 

THE  woman  who  is  resolved  to  be  respected 
can  make  herself  to  be  so,  even  amidst  an 
army  of  soldiers.  MIGUEL  DE  CERVANTES. 

To  form  devices  quick  is  woman's  wit. 

EURIPIDES. 

A  BEAUTIFUL  woman  is  the  paradise  of  the 
eyes,  the  hell  of  the  soul,  and  the  purgatory 
of  the  pulse.  ANONYMOUS. 

IF  you  would  make  a  pair  of  good  shoes, 
take  for  the  sole  the  tongue  of  a  woman ;  it 
never  wears  out.  ALSATIAN  PROVERB. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  157 

ONE  is  always  a  woman's  first  lover. 

PIERRE  DE  LACLOS. 

A  MAN  must  be  a  fool  who  does  not  suc- 
ceed in  making  a  woman  believe  that  which 
flatters  her.  HONORE  DE  BALZAC. 

I  HAVE  seen  faces  of  women  that  were  fair 
to  look  upon,  yet  one  could  see  that  the 
icicles  were  forming  round  these  women's 
hearts.  OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

WOMAN'S  work,  grave  sirs,  is  never  done. 
LAWRKNCE  EUSDEN. 

THE  highest  mark  of  esteem  a  woman  can 
give  a  man  is  to  ask  his  friendship,  and  the 
most  signal  proof  of  her  indifference  is  to 
offer  him  hers.  ANONYMOUS. 

MAN  is  the  will,  and  Woman  the  senti- 
ment. In  this  ship  of  humanity.  Will  is  the 
rudder,  and  Sentiment  the  sail.  When 
Woman  affects  to  steer,  the  rudder  is  only 
a  masked  sail.  RALPH  WALDO  EMERSON. 

A  WOMAN'S  preaching  is  like  a  dog's  walk- 
ing on  his  hind  legs.  It  is  not  done  well, 
but  you  are  surprised  to  find  it  done  at  all. 

SAMUEL  JOHNSON. 


158  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

THE  only  way  to  get  the  upper  hand  of  a 
woman  is  to  be  more  woman  than  she  is 
herself.  ANONYMOUS. 

THE  devastating  egotism  of  man  is  prop- 
erly foreign  to  woman ;  though  there  are 
many  women  as  haughty,  hard,  and  imperi- 
ous as  any  man. 

WILLIAM  ROUNSEVILLE  ALGER. 

THERE  are  some  women  who  think  virtue 
was  given  them  as  claws  were  given  to  cats, 
—  to  do  nothing  but  scratch  with. 

DOUGLAS  JERROI.D. 

AN  immodest  woman  is  food  without  salt. 
ARABIAN  PROVERB. 


FORTITUDE  OF  WOMEN. 

I  HAVE  often  had  occasion  to  remark  the 
fortitude  with  which  women  sustain  the  most 
overwhelming  reverses  of  fortune.  Those 
disasters  that  break  down  the  spirit  of  a 
man,  and  prostrate  him  in  the  dust,  seem 
to  call  forth  all  the  energies  of  the  softer 
sex,  and  give  such  intrepidity  and  elevation 
to  their  character,  that  at  times  it  approaches 
to  sublimity.  Nothing  can  be  more  touch- 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  159 

ing  than  to  behold  a  soft  and  tender  female, 
who  has  been  all  weakness  and  dependence, 
and  alive  to  every  trivial  roughness  while 
treading  the  prosperous  paths  of  life,  sud- 
denly rising  in  mental  force  to  be  the  com- 
forter and  supporter  of  her  husband  under 
misfortune,  and  abiding,  with  unshrinking 
firmness,  the  bitterest  blasts  of  adversity. 
As  the  vine  which  has  long  twined  its  grace- 
ful foliage  about  the  oak,  and  been  lifted  by 
it  into  sunshine,  will,  when  the  hardy  plant 
is  rifted  by  the  thunderbolt,  cling  round  it 
with  its  caressing  tendrils,  and  bind  up  its 
shattered  boughs ;  so  is  it  beautifully  ordained 
by  Providence  that  woman,  who  is  the  mere 
dependant  and  ornament  of  man  in  his  hap- 
pier hours,  should  be  his  stay  and  solace 
when  smitten  with  sudden  calamity, —  wind- 
ing herself  into  the  rugged  recesses  of  his 
nature,  tenderly  supporting  the  drooping 
head,  and  binding  up  the  broken  heart.  I 
was  once  congratulating  a  friend,  who  had 
around  him  a  blooming  family,  knit  together 
in  the  strongest  affection.  "  I  can  wish  you 
no  better  lot,"  said  he  with  enthusiasm, 
"  than  to  have  a  wife  and  children.  If  you 
are  prosperous,  there  they  are 'to  share  your 


160  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

prosperity;  if  otherwise,  there  they  are  to 
comfort  you."  And,  indeed,  I  have  observed 
that  a  married  man  falling  into  misfortune  is 
more  apt  to  retrieve  his  situation  in  the  world 
than  a  single  one,  —  partly  because  he  is  more 
stimulated  to  exertion  by  the  necessities  of 
the  beloved  beings  who  depend  upon  him  for 
subsistence ;  but  chiefly  because  his  spirits 
are  soothed  and  relieved  by  domestic  endear- 
ments, and  his  self-respect  kept  alive  by  find- 
ing that,  though  all  abroad  is  darkness  and 
humiliation,  yet  there  is  still  a  little  world  of 
love  at  home,  of  which  he  is  monarch ; 
whereas  a  single  man  is  apt  to  run  to  waste 
and  self-neglect,  to  fancy  himself  lonely  and 
abandoned,  and  his  heart  to  fall  to  ruin, 
like  some  deserted  mansion,  for  want  of  an 

inhabitant. 

WASHINGTON  IRVING. 


XVI. 

WOMEN  have,  in  general,  but  one  object, 
which  is  their  beauty;  upon  which  scarce 
any  flattery  is  too  gross  for  them. 

LORD  CHESTERFIELD. 

IF  Cleopatra's  nose  had  been  shorter,  the 
face  of  the  whole  world  would  have  been 
changed.  BLAISE  PASCAL. 

A  WORTHLESS  girl  has  enslaved  me,  —  me 
whom  no  enemy  ever  did.  EPICTETUS. 

AN  indigent  female,  the  object  probably 
of  love  and  tenderness  in  her  youth,  at  a 
more  advanced  age  a  withered  flower,  has 
nothing  to  do  but  retire  and  die. 

ROBERT  HALL. 

IN  love  affairs,  from  innocence  to  the 
fault,  there  is  but  a  kiss. 

ALBERIC  SECOND. 

THE  destiny  of  women  is  to  please,  to  be 
amiable,  and  to  be  loved. 

ROCHEBRUNE. 

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1 62  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

NOT   much   he   kens,  I  ween,   of  woman's 

breast, 
Who  thinks  that  wanton  thing  is  won  by 

sighs ; 
What  careth  she  for  hearts  when  once 

possess'd?  LORD  BYRON. 

WOMEN  rouge  that  they  may  not  blush. 

ITALIAN  PROVERB. 

A  WOMAN  in  love  is  a  very  poor  judge  of 
character.  JOSIAH  GILBERT  HOLLAND. 

THERE  was  never  yet  fair  woman  but  she 
made  mouths  in  a  glass. 

WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 

A  WOMAN'S  whole  life  is  the  history  of  the 
affections.  The  heart  is  her  world;  it  is 
there  her  ambition  strives  for  empire. 

WASHINGTON  IRVING. 

WOMEN  never  lie  more  astutely  than  when 
they  tell  the  truth  to  those  who  do  not 
believe  them.  ANONYMOUS. 

A  WOMAN'S  friendship  borders  more  closely 

on  love  than  man's. 

SAMUEL  TAYLOR  COLERIDGE. 

WOMEN  never   weep   more   bitterly  than 

when  they  weep  with  spite. 

ANTOINE  RICARD. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  163 

THE  purer  the  golden  vessel  the  more 
readily  is  it  bent ;  the  higher  worth  of  women 
is  sooner  lost  than  that  of  men. 

JEAN  PAUL  RICHTER. 

NATURE  has  given  beauty  to  women  which 
can  resist  shields  and  spears.  She  who  is 
beautiful  is  stronger  than  iron  and  flame. 

ANACREON. 

To  love  her  is  a  liberal  education. 

WILLIAM  CONGREVE. 

THE  heart  of  true  womanhood  knows  where 
its  own  sphere  is,  and  never  seeks  to  stray 
beyond  it.  NATHANIEL  HAWTHORNE. 

IT  is  said  woman  loves  courage  in  man, 
that  he  may  protect  her.  No,  —  she  loves 
courage  which  makes  sacrifices.  She  loves 
heroism.  She  loves  protection,  but  from  a 
hero's  arm.  It  is  the  virtue,  not  her  own 

safety,  she  loves. 

WILLIAM  ELLERY  CHANNING. 

MILLIONS  of  people,  generations  of  slaves, 

perish  in  this  penal  servitude  of  the  factories 

merely  in  order  to  satisfy  the  whim  of  woman. 

COUNT  LYOF  N.  TOLSTOI. 

A  WOMAN  of  sense  ought  to  be  above  flat- 
tering any  man.  OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 


164  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

THE  reason  why  so  few  marriages  are  happy 
is  because  young  ladies  spend  their  time 
making  nets,  not  making  cages.  ANONYMOUS. 

WOMAN  knows  that  the  better  she  obeys 

the  surer  she  is  to  rule. 

JULES  MICHELET. 

SING  of  the  nature  of  woman,  and  the  song 
shall  be  surely  full  of  variety,  —  old  crotchets 
and  most  sweet  closes,  —  it  shall  be  humor- 
ous, grave,  fantastic,  amorous,  melancholy, 
sprightly,  —  one  in  all,  and  all  in  one. 

GUSTAVE  AUGUSTE   BEAUMONT. 

A  SHARP  eye  can  almost  always  see  the 
train  leading  from  a  young  girl's  eye  or  lip 
to  the  "  I  love  you  "  in  her  heart. 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

WOMEN,  wind,  and  fortune  soon  change. 

SPANISH  PROVERB. 

A  WOMAN  without  a  laugh  in  her  ...  is 
the  greatest  bore  in  nature. 

WILLIAM  MAKEPEACE  THACKERAY. 

To  women,  mildness  is  the  best  means  to 
be  right.  MME.  DE  FONTAINES. 

WOMEN  bestow  on  friendship  only  what 
they  borrow  from  love. 

SEBASTIEN  ROCHE  NICOLAS  CHAMFORT. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  165 

THE  best  shelter  for  a  girl  is  her  mother's 
wing.  ANONYMOUS. 

WHOEVER,  allured  by  riches  or  high  rank, 
marries  a  vicious  woman  is  a  fool. 

EURIPIDES. 

A  GOOD-TEMPERED  woman,  of  the  order 
yclept  buxom,  not  only  warrants  a  pair  of 
expansive  shoulders,  but  bespeaks  our  appro- 
bation of  them.  LEIGH  HUNT. 

FOR  a  woman  to  be  at  once  a  coquette 
and  a  bigot  is  more  than  the  meekest  of  hus- 
bands can  bear.  JEAN  DE  LA  BRUYERE. 

MEN  love  at  first  and  most  warmly ;  women 
love  last  and  longest.  This  is  natural  enough ; 
for  nature  makes  women  to  be  won  and  men 
to  win.  GEORGE  WILLIAM  CURTIS. 

WHAT  we  call  in  men  wisdom  is  in  women 
prudence.  It  is  a  partiality  to  call  one  greater 
than  the  other.  SIR  RICHARD  STEELE. 

AN  undoubted,  uncontested,  conscious 
beauty  is,  of  all  women,  the  least  sensible 
of  flattery.  LORD  CHESTERFIELD. 

WOMEN  who  have  not  fine  teeth  laugh  only 
with  their  eyes.  MME.  DE  RIEUX. 


1 66  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

WOMEN  generally  consider  consequences 
in  love,  seldom  in  resentment. 

CALEB  C.  COLTON. 

RASCAL  !  that  word  on  the  lips  of  a  woman, 
addressed  to  a  too  daring  man,  often  means 

angel !  ANONYMOUS. 

WHY  should  man,  who  is  strong,  always 
get  the  best  of  it,  and  be  forgiven  so  much ; 
and  woman,  who  is  weak,  get  the  worst  and 

be  forgiven  so  little? 

MRS.  W.  K.  CLIFFORD. 

Woo  the  widow  whilst  she  is  in  weeds. 

GERMAN  PROVERB. 

WOMEN.  — Their  love  first  inspires  the  poet, 
and  their  praise  is  his  best  reward. 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

WOMEN  have  no  worse  enemies  than  women. 
JEAN  FRANC,  ois  DUCLOS. 

WITH  what  hope  can  we  endeavor  to  per- 
suade the  ladies  that  the  time  spent  at  the 

toilet  is  lost  in  vanity? 

SAMUEL  JOHNSON. 

A  MOTHER'S  prayers,  silent  and  gentle,  can 
never  miss  the  road  to  the  throne  of  all 
bounty.  HENRY  WARD  BEECHER. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  167 

VENUS  always  saves  the  lover  whom  she 
leads.  DELATOUCHE. 

A  WRETCHED  woman  is  more  unfortunate 
than  a  wretched  man.  VICTOR  HUGO. 

A  GOOD  woman  is  a  hidden  treasure  ;  who 
discovers  her  will  do  well  not  to  boast  about 
it.  FRANC.OIS  DE  LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

WOMEN  are  twice  as  religious  as  men ;  — 
all  the  world  knows  that. 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

THE  most  dreadful  thing  against  women 
is  the  character  of  the  men  who  praise  them. 

ANONYMOUS. 

A  WOMAN  is  naturally  as  much  more  capri- 
cious than  a  man  as  she  is  more  susceptible. 
A  slighter  shock  suffices  to  jostle  her  delicate 
emotions  out  of  delight  into  disgust. 

WILLIAM  ROUNSEVILLE  ALGER. 

IF  a  woman  demand  votes,  offices,  and 
political  equality  with  men,  as  among  the 
Shakers  an  elder  and  elderess  are  of  equal 
power,  —  and  among  the  Quakers,  —  it  must 
not  be  refused.  It  is  very  cheap  wit  that 
finds  it  so  droll  that  women  should  vote. 

RALPH  WALDO  EMERSON. 


1 68  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

1  AM  ignorant  of  any  one  quality  that  is 
amiable  in  a  man  which  is  not  equally  so  in 
a  woman ;  I  do  not  except  even  modesty 
and  gentleness  of  nature.  Nor  do  I  know 
one  vice  or  folly  which  is  not  equally  detest- 
able in  both.  JONATHAN  SWIFT. 

LOVE  thy  wife  as  thy  soul ;  shake  her  as  a 
plum-tree.  RUSSIAN  PROVERB. 


SELF-RELIANCE   WOMAN'S  HOPE. 

IN  these  days,  when  society  is  becoming 
every  day  more  artificial  and  more  complex, 
and  marriage,  as  the  gentlemen  assure  us, 
more  and  more  expensive,  hazardous,  and 
inexpedient,  women  must  find  means  to  fill 
up  the  void  of  existence.  Men,  our  natural 
protectors,  our  law-givers,  our  masters,  throw 
us  upon  our  own  resources ;  the  qualities 
which  they  pretend  to  admire  in  us,  —  the 
overflowing,  the  clinging  affections  of  a 
warm  heart,  —  the  household  devotion,  —  the 
submissive  wish  to  please,  that  feels  "  every 
vanity  in  fondness  lost,"  —  the  tender,  shrink- 
ing sensitiveness  which  Adam  thought  so 
charming  in  his  Eve,  —  to  cultivate  these,  to 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  169 

make  them  by  artificial  means  the  staple  of 
the  womanly  character,  is  it  not  to  cultivate 
a  taste  for  sunshine  and  roses  in  those  we 
send  to  pass  their  lives  in  the  Arctic  zone  ? 
We  have  gone  away  from  nature,  and  we 
must,  if  we  can,  substitute  another  nature. 
.  .  .  Coleridge,  as  you  will  remember,  has 
asserted  that  the  perfection  of  a  woman's 
character  is  to  be  characterless.  "  Every 
man,"  said  he,  "  would  like  to  have  an  Ophe- 
lia or  a  Desdemona  for  his  wife."  No  doubt ; 
the  sentiment  is  truly  a  masculine  one  ;  and 
what  was  their  fate  ?  What  would  now  be  the 
fate  of  such  unresisting  and  confiding  angels  ? 
Is  this  the  age  of  Arcadia  ?  .  .  .  No,  no  ; 
women  need  in  these  times  character  beyond 
everything  else ;  the  qualities  which  will  en- 
able them  to  endure  and  to  resist  evil ;  the 
self-governed,  the  cultivated,  active  mind,  to 
protect  and  maintain  ourselves.  How  many 
wretched  women  marry  for  a  maintenance  ! 
How  many  wretched  women  sell  themselves 
to  dishonor  for  bread !  —  and  there  is  small 
difference,  if  any,  in  the  infamy  and  the 
misery  !  How  many  unmarried  women  live 
in  heart-wearing  dependence  ;  —  if  poor,  in 
solitary  penury,  loveless,  joyless,  unendeared ; 


170  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

if  rich,  in  aimless,  pitiful  trifling  !  How 
many,  strange  to  say,  marry  for  the  indepen- 
dence they  dare  not  otherwise  claim  !  But 
the  more  paths  opened  to  us,  the  less  fear 
that  we  should  go  astray. 

MRS.  ANNA  JAMESON. 


XVII. 

THE  passion  for  praise,  which  is  so  very 
vehement  in  the  fair  sex,  produces  excellent 

effects  in  women  of  sense. 

JOSEPH  ADDISON. 

WITH  women,  friendship  ends  when  rivalry 
begins.  ANONYMOUS. 

A  WOMAN  is  easily  governed  if  a  man  takes 
her  hand.  JEAN  DE  LA  BRUYERE. 

THE  lover  cannot  paint  his  maiden  to  his 
fancy  poor  and  solitary. 

RALPH  WALDO  EMERSON. 

THE  man  who  can  govern  a  woman  can 
govern  a  nation.  HONORE  DE  BALZAC. 

APELLES  used  to  paint  a  good  housewife 
on  a  snail,  to  import  that  she  was  a  home- 
keeper.  JAMES  HOWELL. 

MAN  argues  woman  may  not  be  trusted 
too  far ;  woman  feels  man  cannot  be  trusted 
too  near.  JUNIUS  HENRI  BROWNE. 


172  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

OF  all  seasons  for  a  lover,  if  he  be  both 
delicate  and  artful,  to  approach  the  object  of 
his  pursuit,  that  is  most  favorable  when  the 
one  who  is  sought  is  forlorn  with  the  sense 
of  bereavement  of  a  love  which  has  forever 
gone.  RICHARD  MALCOLM  JOHNSTON. 

MAN  carves  his  destiny ;  woman  is  helped 
to  hers.  JULIA  WARD  HOWE. 

IF  the  women  did  not  make  idols  of  us, 
and  if  they  saw  us  as  we  see  each  other, 
would  life  be  bearable  or  could  society  go 
on?  WILLIAM  MAKEPEACE  THACKERAY. 

I  LIKE  mountains  and  clouds,  trees,  birds, 
and  flowers,  —  the  raw  material  of  poetry; 
but  to  me  handsome  women  are  more  pleas- 
ant than  all  of  them,  —  they  are  little  poems 
ready  made.  FREDERICK  SHELDON. 

MARRY  no  lettered  damsel,  whose  wise  head 
May  prove  it  just  to  graft  the  horns  on  thine  : 
Marry  no  idiot,  keep  her  from  thy  bed. 
What  the  brains  want  will  often   elsewhere 
shine.  THOMAS  CHATTERTON. 

WOMEN  are  apt  to  love  the  men  who  they 
think  have  the  largest  capacity  of  loving. 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  173 

THERE  are  few  women  whose  charms  sur- 
vive their  beauty. 

FRANCOIS  DE  LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

A  WOMAN  despises  a  man  for  loving  her 
unless  she  happens  to  return  his  love. 

ELIZABETH  STODDARD. 

BEAUTY  is  the  first  gift  Nature  gives  to 
woman,  and  the  first  she  takes  from  her. 

GEORGES  BROSSIN  DE  MERE. 

WOMEN  must  have  their  wills  while  they 
live,  because  they  make  none  when  they 
die.  PROVERB. 

MOST  women  spend  their  lives  in  robbing 
the  old  tree  from  which  Eve  plucked  the 
first  fruit.  OCTAVE  FEUILLET. 

WHAT  is  it  that  love  does  to  women  ? 
Without  it,  she  only  sleeps;  with  it  alone, 
she  lives.  OUIDA. 

FEMALE  levity  is  no  less  fatal  to  them  after 
marriage  than  before.  JOSEPH  ADDISON. 

THE  highest  dressers,  the  highest  face- 
painters,  are  not  the  loveliest  women,  but 
such  as  have  lost  their  loveliness,  or  never 
had  any.  LEIGH  HUNT. 


174  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

THE  heart  of  a  woman  never  grows  old ; 
when  it  has  ceased  to  love,  it  has  ceased  to 

live.  ROCHEPEDRE. 

NEITHER  in  adversity  nor  in  the  joys  of 
prosperity  let  me  be  associated  with  woman- 
kind. AESCHYLUS. 

WOMEN  ask  if  a  man  is  discreet,  as  men 
ask  if  a  woman  is  pretty.  ANONYMOUS. 

CURIOSITY  is  one  of  the  forms  of  feminine 
bravery.  VICTOR  HUGO. 

CONFOUND  the  make-believe  women  we 
have  turned  loose  in  our  streets. 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

IT  is  easier  to  take  care  of  a  peck  of  fleas 
than  of  one  woman.  PROVERB. 

WOMEN  are  like  thermometers,  which,  on 
a  sudden  application  of  heat,  sink  at  first  a 
few  degrees,  as  preliminary  to  rising  a  good 
many.  JEAN  PAUL  RICHTER. 

UNTIL  we  know  woman,  we  know  not 
strength  of  love.  In  this  we  have,  perhaps, 
the  best  emblem  of  omnipotence  as  well  as 
divine  goodness. 

WILLIAM  ELLERY  CHANNING. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  175 

A  COQUETTE  sparkles,  but  it  is  more  the 
sparkle  of  a  harmless  and  pretty  vanity  than 
of  calculation.  DONALD  G.  MITCHELL. 

NATURE  has  hardly  formed  a  woman  ugly 
enough  to  be  insensible  to  flattery  upon  her 
person.  LORD  CHESTERFIELD. 

GOD  has  placed  the  genius  of  women  in 
their  hearts,  because  the  works  of  this  genius 
are  always  works  of  love. 

ALPHONSE  DE  LAMARTINE. 

HER  step  is  music,  and  her  voice  is  song. 
PHILIP  JAMES  BAILEY. 

To  think  of  the  part  one  little  woman  can 
play  in  the  life  of  a  man,  so  that  to  renounce 
her  may  be  a  very  good  imitation  of  heroism, 
and  to  win  her  may  be  a  discipline  ! 

GEORGE  ELIOT. 

THE  truth  is,  women  are  lost  because  they 
do  not  deliberate.  AMELIA  E.  BARR. 

WHEN  God  thought  of  Mother,  he  must 
have  laughed  with  satisfaction,  and  framed  it 
quickly,  —  so  rich,  so  deep,  so  divine,  so  full 
of  soul,  power,  and  beauty  was  the  con- 
ception. HENRY  WARD  BEECHER. 


1 76  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

A  WOMAN  may  always  help  her  husband  by 
what  she  knows,  however  little ;  by  what  she 
half  knows,  or  mis-knows,  she  will  only  tease 
him.  JOHN  RUSKIN. 

THE  pleasure  of  talking  is  the  inextinguish- 
able passion  of  woman,  coeval  with  the  act 
of  breathing.  ALAIN  RENE  LESAGE. 

WOMEN  of  the  world  never  use  harsh  ex- 
pressions when  condemning  their  rivals. 

ANONYMOUS. 

WOMEN  are,  for  the  most  part,  good  or 
bad,  as  they  fall  among  those  who  practise 
vice  or  virtue.  SAMUEL  JOHNSON. 

WOMEN  exceed  the  generality  of  men  in 
love.  JEAN  DE  LA  BRUYERE. 

WOMEN  commend  a  modest  man,  and  like 
him  not.  PROVERB. 

A  DELICATE  woman  is  the  best  instrument ; 
she  has  such  a  magnificent  compass  of 
sensibilities.  OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

To  say  "  Every  one  is  talking  about  him  " 
is  a  eulogy ;  but  to  say  "  Every  one  is 
talking  about  her"  is  an  elegy. 

ANONYMOUS. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  i  77 

WHATEVER  may  be  thought  of  its  theologi- 
cal propriety,  there  can  be  little  doubt  that  the 
Catholic  reverence  for  the  Virgin  has  done 
much  to  elevate  and  purify  the  ideal  of 
woman,  and  to  soften  the  manners  of  men. 
WILLIAM  EDWARD  HARTPOLE  LECKV. 

THE  lives  of  noble  women  are  "so  trans- 
parent and  so  deep  that  only  the  subtile 
insight  of  sympathy  can  penetrate  them ; " 
their  open  secrets  baffle  all  the  scrutiny  of 
coarse  souls.  WILLIAM  ROUNSEVILLE  ALGER. 

LET  us  have  the  true  woman,  the  adorner, 
the  hospitable,  the  religious  heart,  and  no 
lawyer  need  be  called  in  to  write  stipulations, 
the  cunning  clauses  of  provision,  the  strong 
investures,  —  for  woman  moulds  the  lawgiver 
and  writes  the  law.  RALPH  WALDO  EMERSON. 

A  WOMAN  is  like  your  shadow  :  follow  her, 
she  flies ;  fly  from  her,  she  follows.  PROVERB. 

WOMAN  is  a  changeable  thing,  as  our 
Virgil  informed  us  at  school ;  but  her  change 
par  excellence  is  from '  the  fairy  you  woo  to 
the  brownie  you  wed. 

EDWARD  BULWER-LYTTON. 

How   many   ways    to    the    heart    has    a 

woman  !  WILLIAM  ELLERY  CHANNING. 

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1 78  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

WHAT  manly  eloquence  could  produce 
such  an  effect  as  woman's  silence  ! 

JULES  MICHELET. 

WHEN  maidens  sue,  men  live  like  gods. 

PROVERB. 

I  THINK  it  takes  a  great  deal  from  a 
woman's  modesty,  going  into  public  life ;  and 
modesty  is  her  greatest  charm. 

MRS.  HENRY  WARD  BEECHER. 


RESPONSIBILITY  OF  WOMEN. 

THERE  is  not  a  war  in  the  world,  no,  nor 
an  injustice,  but  you  women  are  answerable 
for  it ;  not  in  that  you  have  provoked,  but 
in  that  you  have  not  hindered.  Men,  by 
their  nature,  are  prone  to  fight;  they  will 
fight  for  any  cause,  or  for  none.  It  is  for 
you  to  choose  their  cause  for  them,  and  to 
forbid  them  when  there  is  no  cause.  There 
is  no  suffering,  no  injustice,  no  misery  in  the 
earth,  but  the  guilt  of  it  lies  lastly  with  you. 
Men  can  bear  the  sight  of  it,  but  you  should 
not  be  able  to  bear  it.  Men  may  tread  it 
down  without  sympathy  in  their  own  struggle  ; 
but  men  are  feeble  in  sympathy  and  con- 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  179 

traded  in  hope  :  it  is  you  only  who  can  feel 
the  depths  of  pain,  and  conceive  the  way  of 
its  healing.  Instead  of  trying  to  do  this, 
you  turn  away  from  it ;  you  shut  yourselves 
within  your  park  walls  and  garden  gates ;  and 
you  are  content  to  know  that  there  is  beyond 
them  a  world  in  wilderness,  —  a  world  of 
secrets  which  you  dare  not  penetrate,  and  of 
suffering  which  you  dare  not  conceive.  I  tell 
you  that  this  is  to  me  quite  the  most  amazing 
among  the  phenomena  of  humanity.  I  am 
surprised  at  no  depths  to  which,  when  once 
warped  from  its  honor,  that  humanity  can 
be  degraded.  I  do  not  wonder  at  the 
miser's  death,  with  his  hands,  as  they  relax, 
dropping  gold.  I  do  not  wonder  at  the 
sensualist's  life,  with  the  shroud  wrapped 
about  his  feet.  I  do  not  wonder  at  the 
single-handed  murder  of  a  single  victim, 
done  by  the  assassin  in  the  darkness  of  the 
railway,  or  reed  shadow  of  the  marsh.  I  do 
not  even  wonder  at  the  myriad-handed 
murder  of  multitudes,  done  boastfully  in  the 
daylight,  by  the  frenzy  of  nations,  and  the 
immeasurable,  unimaginable  guilt,  heaped 
up  from  hell  to  heaven,  of  their  priests  and 
kings.  But  this  is  wonderful  to  me  —  oh, 


l8o  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

how  wonderful !  —  to  see  the  tender  and 
delicate  woman  among  you,  with  her  child 
at  her  breast,  and  a  power,  if  she  would 
wield  it,  over  it  and  over  its  father,  purer 
than  the  air  of  heaven,  and  stronger  than 
the  seas  of  earth,  —  nay,  a  magnitude  of 
blessing  which  her  husband  would  not  part 
with  for  all  the  earth  itself,  though  it  were 
made  of  one  entire  and  perfect  chrysolite ;  — 
to  see  her  abdicate  this  majesty  to  play  at 
precedence  with  her  next-door  neighbor ! 
This  is  wonderful  —  oh,  wonderful !  —  to  see 
her  with  every  innocent  feeling  fresh  within 
her,  go  out  in  the  morning  into  her  garden 
to  play  with  the  fringes  of  its  guarded  flowers, 
and  lift  their  heads  when  they  are  drooping, 
with  her  happy  smile  upon  her  face  and  no 
cloud  upon  her  brow,  because  there  is  a 
little  wall  around  her  place  of  peace ;  and 
yet  she  knows,  in  her  heart,  if  she  would 
only  look  for  its  knowledge,  that,  outside  of 
that  little  rose-covered  wall,  the  wild  grass, 
to  the  horizon,  is  torn  up  by  the  agony  of 
men,  and  beat  level  by  the  drift  of  their 
life-blood.  JOHN  RUSKIN. 


XVIII. 

A  WOMAN  either  loves  or  hates ;  she  knows 
no  medium.  PUBLIUS  SYRUS. 

THE  error  of  certain  women  is  to  imagine 
that,  to  acquire  distinction,  they  must  imitate 
the  manners  of  men. 

JOSEPH  MARIE  DE  MAISTRE. 

WOMAN'S  virtue  is  the  music  of  stringed 
instruments,  which  sounds  best  in  a  room. 

JEAN  PAUL  RICHTER. 

WITH  women,  the  desire  to  bedeck  them- 
selves is  always  the  desire  to  please. 

JEAN  FRANC.OIS  DE  MARMONTEL. 

IN  life,  as  in  a  promenade,  woman  must 
lean  on  a  man  above  her.  ALPHONSE  KARR. 
KINDNESS  in  women,  not  their  beauteous 

looks, 
Shall  win  my  love.         WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 

SOME  women  need  much  adorning,  as  some 
meat  needs  much  seasoning  to  incite  appe- 
tite. ROCHEBRUNE. 


1  82  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

'T  is  beauty  that  doth  make  women  proud  ; 

'T  is  virtue  that  doth  make  them  most  ad- 
mired ; 

'Tis    government   that   makes   them    seem 
divine.  WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 

WOMEN  like  audacity  :  when  one  astounds 
them,  he  interests  them  ;  and  when  one  in- 
terests them,  he  is  very  sure  to  please  them. 

ANONYMOUS. 

WOMEN  should  despise  slander,  and  fear  to 
provoke  it.  MLLE.  DE  SCUDERI. 

NATURE  is  in  earnest  when  she  makes  a 
woman.  OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

HOWEVER  virtuous  a  woman  may  be,  a 
compliment  on  her  virtue  is  what  gives  her 
the  least  pleasure.  PRINCE  DE  LIGNE. 

No  man  has  yet  discovered  the  means  of 
giving  successfully  friendly  advice  to  women, 
—  not  even  to  his  own. 

DE  BALZAC. 


THE  anger  of  a  woman  is  the  greatest  evil 
with  which  one  can  threaten  his  enemies. 

CHILLON. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  183 

WHAT  furniture  can  give  such  a  finish  to 
a  room  as  a  tender  woman's  face  ?  And  is 
there  any  harmony  of  tints  that  has  such 
stirrings  of  delight  as  the  sweet  modulations 
of  her  voice  ?  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

I  WOULD  have  a  woman  as  true  as  death. 
At  the  first  real  lie  that  works  from  the  heart 
outward,  she  should  be  tenderly  chloroformed 
into  a  better  world. 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

THERE  is  no  jewel  in  the  world  so  valuable 
as  a  chaste  and  virtuous  woman. 

MIGUEL  DE  CERVANTES. 

NATURE  has  given  to  women  fortitude 
enough  to  resist  a  certain  time,  but  not 
enough  to  resist  completely  the  inclination 

which  they  cherish. 

CLAUDE  JOSEPH  DORAT. 

YE  are  stars  of  the  night,  ye  are  gems  of  the 

morn ; 
Ye  are  dewdrops,  whose  lustre  illumines  the 

thorn; 
And  rayless  that  night  is,  that  morning  un- 

blest, 
Where  no  beam  in  your  eye  lights  up  peace 

in  the  breast.  THOMAS  MOORE. 


184  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

WITHOUT  woman  the  two  extremes  of  life 
would  be  without  succor,  and  the  middle 
without  pleasure.  ANONYMOUS. 

I   TORE  my  gown,   I    soil'd   my  locks  with 

dust, 
And  beat  my  breasts,  —  as  wretched  widows 

must; 

Before  my  face  my  handkerchief  I  spread, 
To  hide  the  flood  of  tears  I  did  —  not  shed. 

ALEXANDER  POPE. 

FOR  where  is  any  author  in  the  world 
Teaches  such  beauty  as  a  woman's  eye  ? 

WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 

A  TERMAGANT  wife  may,  therefore,  in  some 
respects  be  considered  a  tolerable  blessing. 

WASHINGTON  IRVING. 

YET  in  the  long  years  liker  must  they  grow ; 
The  man  be  more  of  woman,  she  of  man  : 
He  gain  in  sweetness  and  in  moral  height, 
Nor  lose  the  wrestling  thews  that  throw  the 

world ; 
She  mental  breadth,  nor  fail  in  childward 

care.  ALFRED  TENNYSON. 

DIVINATION  seems  heightened  to  its  highest 
power  in  woman.  A.  BRONSON  ALCOTT. 


.    WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  185 

SILENCE  has  been  given  to  woman  to  bet- 
ter express  her  thoughts. 

Louis  CLAUDE  JOSEPH  DESNOYERS. 

NATURE  has  given  women  so  much  power 
that  the  law  has  very  wisely  given  them 
little.  SAMUEL  JOHNSON. 

THE  society  of  women  endangers  men's 
morals  and  refines  their  manners. 

CHARLES  DE  SECONDAT  MONTESQUIEU. 

WOMEN  are  supernumerary  when  present, 
and  missed  when  absent. 

PORTUGUESE  PROVERB. 

THE  virtuous  woman  who  falls  in  love  is 
much  to  be  pitied. 

FRANC.OIS  DE  LA  ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

A  COQUETTE  is  more  occupied  with  the 
homage  we  refuse  her  than  with  that  we 
bestow  upon  her.  ANTOINE  DUPUY. 

A  WOMAN  without  religion  is  even  worse,  — 
a  flame  without  heat,  a  rainbow  without  color, 
a  flower  without  perfume. 

DONALD  G.  MITCHELL. 

WOMEN  are  extremists ;  they  are  either 
better  or  worse  than  men. 

JEAN  DE  LA  BRUYERE. 


1 86  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

A  WOMAN  once  fallen  will  shrink  from  no 
impropriety.  CAIUS  CORNELIUS  TACITUS. 

I  DON'T  want  a  woman  to  weigh  me  in  a 
balance ;  there  are  men  enough  for  that  sort 
of  work.  OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

THINK  you,  if  Laura  had  been  Petrarch's  wife, 
He  would  have  written  sonnets  all  his  life  ? 

LORD  BYRON. 

WOMEN  soften  our  character,  and  yet  make 
us  heroic.  The  same  traits  of  character  pro- 
duce these  different  effects. 

WILLIAM  ELLERY  CHANNING. 

WOMEN,  like  empresses,  condemn  to  im- 
prisonment and  hard  labor  nine  tenths  of 
mankind.  COUNT  LYOF  N.  TOLSTOI. 

THERE  is  one  dangerous  science  for  women, 
—  one  which  let  them  indeed  beware  how 
they  profanely  touch,  —  that  of  theology. 

JOHN  RUSKIN. 

A  WOMAN'S  fame  is  the  tomb  of  her  happi- 
ness. PROVERB. 

DIFFUSE  knowledge  generally  among  women, 
and  you  will  at  once  cure  the  conceit  which 
knowledge  occasions  while  it  is  rare. 

SYDNEY  SMITH. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  187 

THE  love  of  woman  has  in  all  ages  given 
birth  in  man  to  passionate  desires,  poetic 
dreams,  deferential  attentions,  persuasive 
forms  of  politeness. 

WILLIAM  ROUNSEVILLE  ALGER. 

A  LADY  who  had  not  learned  discretion  by 
experience  and  came  to  an  evil  end. 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

WHAT  's  female  beauty,  but  an  air  divine, 
Through  which  the  mind's  all-gentle  graces 

shine  ? 

They,  like  the  sun,  irradiate  all  between ; 
The  body  charms,  because  the  soul  is  seen. 

EDWARD  YOUNG. 

WHEN  once  the  young  heart  of  a  maiden  is 

stolen, 
The  maiden  herself  will  steal  after  it  soon. 

THOMAS  MOORE. 

IN  the  elevated  order  of  ideas,  the  life  of 
man  is  glory ;  the  life  of  woman  is  love. 

HONORE  DE  BALZAC. 

THE  vain  coquette  each  suit  disdains, 
And  glories  in  her  lover's  pains ; 
With  age  she  fades,  —  each  lover  flies ; 
Contemn'd,  forlorn,  she  pines  and  dies. 

JOHN  GAY. 


1 88  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

To  no  men  are  such  cordial  greetings  given 
As  those  whose  wives  have  made  them  fit  for 
heaven.  LORD  BYRON. 

MEN  rise  in  character  often,  as  they  increase 
in  years ;  —  they  are  venerable  for  what  they 
have  acquired,  and  pleasing  from  what  they 
can  impart ;  but  women  (such  is  their  unfor- 
tunate style  of  education)  hazard  everything 
upon  one  cast  of  the  die  ;  —  when  youth  is 
gone,  all  is  gone.  SYDNEY  SMITH. 

WOMEN  have  more  strength  in  their  looks 
than  we  have  in  our  laws,  and  more  power 
by  their  tears  than  we  have  by  our  arguments. 

GEORGE  SAVILLE. 

THE  path  of  a  good  woman  is  indeed  strewn 
with  flowers ;  but  they  rise  behind  her  steps, 
not  before  them.  "  Her  feet  have  touched 
the  meadows  and  left  the  daisies  rosy." 

JOHN  RUSKIN. 

THE  man  who,  after  studying  a  hundred 
women,  thought  he  knew  the  sex  thoroughly, 
admitted  on  intimate  acquaintance  with  the 
hundred  and  first,  that  he  was  densely  igno- 
rant of  the  nature  of  any  one  of  them. 

ANONYMOUS. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  189 

IT  goes  far  toward  reconciling  me  to  being 
a  woman  when  I  reflect  that  I  am  thus  in 
no  danger  of  ever  marrying  one. 

LADY  MARY  WORTLEY  MONTAGU. 

A  LAMP  is  lit  in  woman's  eye 
That  souls,  else  lost  on  earth, 
Remember  angels  by. 

NATHANIEL  PARKER  WILLIS. 


WOMAN'S   NEGLECTED  OPPORTUNITIES. 

WOMAN,  whether  new  or  old,  has  immense 
fields  of  culture  unfilled,  immense  areas  of 
influence  wholly  neglected.  She  does  almost 
nothing  with  the  resources  she  possesses,  be- 
cause her  whole  energy  is  concentrated  on 
desiring  and  demanding  those  she  has  not. 
She  can  write  and  print  anything  she  chooses ; 
and  she  scarcely  ever  takes  the  pains  to  ac- 
quire correct  grammar  or  elegance  of  style 
before  wasting  ink  on  paper.  She  can  paint 
and  model  any  subject  she  chooses ;  but  she 
imprisons  herself  in  men's  ateliers  to  endea- 
vor to  steal  their  technique  and  their  meth- 
ods, and  thus  loses  any  originality  she  might 
possess.  Her  influence  on  children  might 


I  go  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

be  so  great  that  through  them  she  would 
practically  rule  the  future  of  the  world  ;  but 
she  delegates  her  influence  to  the  vile  school- 
boards,  if  she  be  poor,  and  if  she  be  rich, 
to  governesses  and  tutors,  —  nor  does  she, 
in  ninety-nine  cases  out  of  a  hundred,  ever 
attempt  to  educate  or  control  herself  into 
fitness  for  the  personal  exercise  of  such  in- 
fluence. Not  to  speak  of  the  entire  guid- 
ance of  childhood,  —  which  is  certainly 
already  chiefly  in  the  hands  of  woman,  and 
of  which  her  use  does  not  do  her  much 
honor,  —  so  long  as  she  goes  to  see  one  of 
her  own  sex  dancing  in  a  lion's  den,  the 
lions  being  meanwhile  terrorized  by  a  male 
brute ;  so  long  as  she  wears  dead  birds  as 
millinery  and  dead  seals  as  coats ;  so  long  as 
she  goes  to  races,  steeplechases,  coursing, 
and  pigeon  matches ;  so  long  as  she  "  walks 
with  the  guns ;  "  so  long  as  she  goes  to  see 
an  American  lashing  horses  to  death  in 
idiotic  contest  with  velocipedes ;  so  long 
as  she  courtesies  before  princes  and  em- 
perors who  reward  the  winners  of  distance 
rides ;  so  long  as  she  receives  physiologists 
in  her  drawing-rooms,  and  trusts  to  them  in 
her  maladies ;  so  long  as  she  invades  litera- 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 


igi 


ture  without  culture  and  art  without  talent ; 
so  long  as  she  orders  her  court  dress  in  a 
hurry ;  so  long  as  she  makes  no  attempt  to 
interest  herself  in  her  servants,  in  her  ani- 
mals, in  the  poor  slaves  of  her  tradespeople ; 
so  long  as  she  shows  herself,  as  she  does  at 
present,  without  scruple  at  every  brutal  and 
debasing  spectacle  which  is  considered  fash- 
ionable; so  long  as  she  understands  nothing 
of  the  beauty  of  meditation,  of  solitude,  of 
Nature ;  so  long  as  she  is  utterly  incapable 
of  keeping  her  sons  out  of  the  shambles  of 
modern  sport,  and  lifting  her  daughters  above 
the  pestilent  miasma  of  modern  society,  —  so 
long  as  she  does  not,  cannot,  or  will  not 
either  do  or  cause  to  do  any  of  these  things, 
she  has  no  possible  title  or  capacity  to  de- 
mand the  place  or  the  privilege  of  man. 

OUIDA. 


XIX. 

IF  all  women's  faces  were  cast  in  the  same 

mould,  that  mould  would  be  the  grave  of  love. 

MARIE  FRANCOIS  XAVIER  BICHAT. 

WHAT  color  would  it  not  have  given  to  my 
thoughts,  and  what  thrice-washed  whiteness 
to  my  words,  had  I  been  fed  on  women's 
praises.  OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

ONE  may  see  the  heart  of  women  through 
the  rents  which  one  may  make  in  their  self- 
love.  ANONYMOUS. 

WOMEN  and  music  should  never  be  dated. 
OLIVER  GOLDSMITH. 

MEN  never  are  consoled  for  their  first  love, 
nor  women  for  their  last. 

JEAN  JACQUES  WEISS. 

IF  the  whole  world  were  put  into  one 
scale,  and  my  mother  into  the  other,  the 
world  would  kick  the  beam. 

LORD  LANDDOMES. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  193 

IT  is  often  woman  who  inspires  us  with 
the  great  things  that  she  will  prevent  us  from 
accomplishing.  ALEXANDRE  DUMAS. 

A  MAN  who  is  known  to  have  broken  many 
hearts  is  naturally  invested  with  a  tantalizing 
charm  to  women  who  have  yet  hearts  to  be 
broken.  HJALMAR  HJORTH  BOYESEN. 

BETWEEN  a  woman's  "yes  "  and  "no  "  I 
would  not  venture  to  stick  a  pin. 

MIGUEL  DE  CERVANTES. 

A  WOMAN'S  love  is  often  a  misfortune  ;  her 
friendship  is  always  a  boon. 

Louis  M^ZIERES. 

A  WOMAN'S  head  is  always  influenced  by 
her  heart,  but  a  man's  heart  is  always  influ- 
enced by  his  head. 

COUNTESS  OF  BLESSINGTON. 

WOMEN  love  always ;  when  earth  slips  away 
from  them  they  take  refuge  in  heaven. 

ANONYMOUS. 

WOMEN  are  constantly  the  dupes,  or  the 
victims,  of  their  extreme  sensitiveness. 

HONOR^  DE  BALZAC. 

WHEN  a  man  says  he  has  a  wife,  it  means 
that  a  wife  has  him. 

SULPICE  GUILLAUME  GAVARNI. 
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194  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

WOMAN  is  more  constant  in  hatred  than  in 
love.  ANONYMOUS. 

WOMEN  do  not  live  in  the  future ;  their 
reign  is  from  day  to  day ;  it  is  the  reign  of 
beauty  which  can  only  lose  by  advancing. 
Women  of  genius  who  wish  to  govern  the 
world  never  contemplate  a  distant  horizon. 

ARSENE   HOUSSAYE. 

A  WOMAN  dies  twice :  the  day  that  she 
quits  life  and  the  day  that  she  ceases  to 
please.  JEAN  JACQUES  WEISS. 

"  NOT  ten  yoke  of  oxen 
Have  the  power  to  draw  us 
Like  a  woman's  hair." 

HENRY  WADSWORTH  LONGFELLOW. 

WHAT  a  woman  wills,  God  wills. 

PROVERB. 

WOMAN,  the  redeemer,  the  new  Messiah, 

must  come  in  crimps  and  ribbons  or  receive 

a  slattern's  welcome.     Seductive  beauty  will 

convert  more  souls  than  repellent  austerity. 

FREDERICK  W.  MORTON. 

SOME  women  kindle  emotion  so  rapidly  in 
a  man's  heart,  that  the  judgment  cannot  keep 
pace  with  it.  THOMAS  HARDY. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  195 

THE  Bible  says  that  woman  is  the  last  thing 
which  God  made.  He  must  have  made  it 
on  Saturday  night.  It  shows  fatigue. 

ALEXANDRE  DUMAS. 

SHAKESPEARE  has  no  heroes,  —  he  has  only 
heroines.  JOHN  RUSKIN. 

SOME  men  are  different ;  all  women  are 
alike.  ALFRED  DELVAU. 

THE  empire  of  woman  is  an  empire  of 
sweetness,  skilfulness,  and  attractiveness ;  her 
orders  are  caresses,  her  evils  are  tears. 

JEAN  JACQUES  ROUSSEAU. 

WOMEN  need  not  be  beautiful  every  day  of 
their  lives ;  it  is  sufficient  that  they  have 
moments  which  one  does  not  forget  and  the 
return  of  which  one  expects. 

VICTOR  CHERBULIEZ. 

THERE  are  some  lips  from  which  even  the 
proudest  women  love  to  hear  the  censure 
which  appears  to  disprove  indifference. 

EDWARD  BULWER-LYTTON. 

IT  is  in  the  nature  of  the  feminine  sex  to 
seek  here  below  to  corrupt  men,  and  there- 
fore wise  men  never  abandon  themselves  to 

the  seductions  of  women. 

LAWS  OF  MANOU. 


196  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

WOULD  that  the  race  of  women  had  never 
existed  —  except  for  me  alone  ! 

EURIPIDES. 

THE  finger  of  the  first  woman  loved  is  like 
that  of  God  :  the  imprint  of  it  is  eternal. 

ANONYMOUS. 

MOST  women  prefer  that  we  should  talk  ill 
of  their  virtue  rather  than  ill  of  their  wit  or 
of  their  beauty. 

JEAN  GASPARD  DUBOIS  FONTANELLE. 

IN  buying  horses  and  in  taking  a  wife,  shut 
your  eyes  tight  and  commend  yourself  to 
God.  TUSCAN  PROVERB. 

ALL  women  desire  to  be  esteemed ;  they 
care  much  less  about  being  respected. 

ALEXANDRE  DUMAS. 

WOMEN  are  women  but  to  become  mothers  ; 
they  go  to  duty  through  pleasure. 

JOSEPH  JOUBERT. 

COQUETRY  is  a  net  laid  by  the  vanity  of 

woman  to  ensnare  that  of  man. 

BRUIS. 

NEVER  say  man,  but  men;  nor  women, 
but  woman ;  for  the  world  has  thousands  of 
men  and  only  one  woman. 

JEAN  JACQUES  WEISS. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  197 

ALL  that  I  am  my  mother  made  me. 

JOHN  QUINCY  ADAMS. 

Bur  one  thing  on  earth  is  better  than  the 
wife,  —  that  is  the  mother. 

LEOPOLD  SCHEFER. 

A  VIRTUOUS  woman  has  in  the  heart  a  fibre 
less  or  a  fibre  more  than  other  women ;  she 

is  stupid  or  sublime. 

HONOR^  DE  BALZAC. 

GOD  deliver  us  from  the  woman  whose  su- 
preme thought  is  her  sex.  She  is  an  object 
to  be  contemned  rather  than  coveted. 

FREDERICK  W.  MORTON. 

IN  every  loving  woman  there  is  a  priestess 
of  the  past,  —  a  pious  guardian  of  some 
affection,  of  which  the  object  has  disap- 
peared. HENRI  FREDERIC  AMIEL. 

ALL  women  are  good,  —  good  for  nothing, 
or  good  for  something. 

MIGUEL  DE  CERVANTES. 

WOMEN  are  a  new  race,  re-created  since 
the  world  received  Christianity. 

HENRY  WARD  BEECHER. 

I  WISH  Adam  had  died  with  all  his  ribs  in 
his  body.  BOUCICAULT. 


198  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

ONE  mother  is  more  venerable  than  a  thou- 
sand fathers.  LAWS  OF  MANOU. 

TELL  a  woman  that  she  is  beautiful,  and 
the  devil  will  repeat  it  to  her  ten  times. 

ITALIAN  PROVERB. 

IN  love,  it  is  only  the  commencement  that 
charms.  I  am  not  surprised  that  one  finds 
pleasure  in  frequently  re-commencing. 

PRINCE  DE  LIGNE. 

GOD  made  her  small  in  order  to  do  a  more 
choice  bit  of  workmanship. 

ALFRED  DE  MUSSET. 

THE  venom  of  the  female  viper  is  more 
poisonous  than  that  of  the  male  viper. 

BENJAMIN  F.  BUTLER. 

FRIENDSHIPS  of  women  are  cushions  wherein 
they  stick  their  pins.  ANONYMOUS. 

I  HAVE  found  that  there  is  an  intimate 
connection  between  the  character  of  women 
and  the  fancy  that  makes  them  choose  such 
and  such  material.  PROSPER  MERIMEE. 

WOMAN  is  the  most  perfect  when  the  most 
womanly.  WILLIAM  EWART  GLADSTONE. 

WOMAN  is  at  once  apple  and  serpent. 

HEINRICH  HEINE. 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  199 

ONE  must  have  loved  a  woman  of  genius 
in  order  to  comprehend  what  happiness  there 
is  in  loving  a  fool. 

CHARLES  MAURICE  DE  TALLEYRAND. 

THE  most  reasonable  women  have  hours 
wherein  to  be  unreasonable. 

VICTOR  CHERBULIEZ. 

THE  love  of  a  bad  woman  kills  others ;  the 
love  of  a  good  and  noble  woman  kills  her- 
self. GEORGE  SAND. 

WOMAN  is  born  for  love,  and  it  is  impos- 
sible to  turn  her  from  seeking  it. 

MARGARET  FULLER  OSSOLI. 

IN  nineteen  cases  out  of  twenty,  for  a 
woman  to  play  her  heart  in  the  game  of  love 
is  to  play  at  cards  with  a  sharper,  and  gold 

coin  against  counterfeit  pieces. 

PAUL  BOURGET. 

MAIDENS  do  not  stand  reluctantly  at  the 
threshold  of  womanhood ;  rather,  they  long 
to  cross  it,  for  it  is  the  dividing  line  between 
man's  kindly,  patronizing  interest  and  his 
servile  homage  and  devotion. 

FREDERICK  W.  MORTON. 

WOMEN  are  at  ease  in  perfidy,  as  are  ser- 
pents in  bushes.  OCTAVE  FEUILLET. 


200  WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

WOMEN  see  without  looking;  their  hus- 
bands often  look  without  seeing. 

Louis  CLAUDE  JOSEPH  DESNOYERS. 

MOST  women  who  ride  well  on  horseback 
have  little  tenderness.  Like  the  Amazons, 
they  lack  a  breast.  ANONYMOUS. 

EARTH  has  nothing  more  tender  than  a 
woman's  heart  when  it  is  the  abode  of  pity. 

MARTIN  LUTHER. 

IN  wishing  to  extend  her  empire,  woman 
destroys  it.  CANABIS. 

WHEREVER  women  are  honored,  the  gods 
are  satisfied.  LAWS  OF  MANOU. 


WOMAN'S  LOVE,  A  REFUGE. 

LOVE  at  its  highest  point  —  love  sublime, 
unique,  invincible  —  leads  us  straight  to  the 
brink  of  the  great  abyss,  for  it  speaks  to  us 
directly  of  the  Infinite  and  of  eternity.  It  is 
eminently  religious ;  it  may  even  become 
religion.  When  all  around  a  man  is  waver- 
ing and  changing ;  when  everything  is  grow- 
ing dark  and  featureless  to  him  in  the  far 
distance  of  an  unknown  future ;  when  the 


WOMAN  IN  EPIGRAM.  201 

world  seems  but  a  fiction  or  a  fairy  tale,  and 
the  universe  a  chimera ;  when  the  whole  edi- 
fice of  ideas  vanishes  in  smoke,  and  all  reali- 
ties are  penetrated  with  doubt,  — what  is  the 
fixed  point  which  may  still  be  his?  The 
faithful  heart  of  a  woman  !  There  he  may 
rest  his  head  ;  there  he  will  find  strength  to 
live,  strength  to  believe,  and,  if  need  be, 
strength  to  die  in  peace  with  a  benediction 
on  his  lips.  Who  knows  if  love  and  its  beati- 
tude—  clear  manifestation  as  it  is  of  the 
universal  harmony  of  things  —  is  not  the  best 
demonstration  of  a  fatherly  and  understand- 
ing God,  just  as  it  is  the  shortest  road  by 
which  to  reach  Him?  Love  is  a  faith,  and 
one  faith  leads  to  another ;  and  this  faith  is 
happiness,  light,  and  force.  Only  by  it  does 
a  man  enter  into  the  series  of  the  living,  the 
awakened,  the  happy,  the  redeemed,  —  of 
those  true  men  who  know  the  value  of  exist- 
ence, and  who  labor  for  the  glory  of  God 
and  the  Truth.  Till  then  we  are  but  babblers 
and  chatterers ;  spendthrifts  of  our  time, 
our  faculties,  and  our  gifts,  without  aim,  with- 
out real  joy;  weak,  infirm,  and  useless 
beings,  of  no  account  in  the  scheme  of 
things.  Perhaps  it  is  through  love  that  I 


202  WO  A/ AN  IN  EPIGRAM. 

shall  find  my  way  back  to  faith,  to  religion, 
to  energy,  to  concentration.  It  seems  to 
me,  at  least,  that  if  I  could  but  find  my 
work-fellow  and  my  destined  companion,  all 
the  rest  would  be  added  unto  me,  as  though 
to  confound  my  unbelief  and  make  me  blush 
for  my  despair.  Believe,  then,  in  a  fatherly 
Providence,  and  dare  to  love  ! 

HENRI  FREDERIC  AMIEL. 


INDEX  OF  AUTHORS. 


A. 

Adams,  197. 
Addison,  12,  53,  63,  76,  93.  »34. 

148,  152,  171,  i?3- 
/Eschylus,  104,  113,  174- 
Alcott,  112,  184. 
Aldrich,  144. 
Alexis,  95. 
Alger,  21,  33.  44,  55-  67,  80,  92, 

114,    121,    143.    '46,    '47.    HO. 

158,  167,  177,  187. 
Amiel,   37,    86,  105,  136,  «97> 

200. 

Anacreon,  163. 
Antiplianes,  62. 
Apuleius,  27- 
Argens,  D',  78,  151. 
Anosto,  71,  100,  102. 
Aristophanes,  87. 
Aristotle,  130. 
Arnold,  12,  63. 
Arnould,  12,  120. 
Aurelius,  142. 
Austen,  100. 
Aytoun,  115. 
Azais,  Mile.,  106. 

B. 

Bachi,  Mme.,  141. 

Bacon,  13,  36,71. 

Bailey,  43,  i?5- 

Baillie,  63,  145. 

Balzac,  n,  15.  35.  4',  48,  54 
57.  66.  74.  ?6,  93.  '"4,  »'5 
117.  '33.  J57.  '71.  l°*> 
193.  '97- 

Barr,  65,  175. 

Barrett,  55. 

Bayle,  56,  82. 

BeauchSne,  84,  95,  105,  133 

Beaufort,  De,  68. 


ieaumanoir,  17,  26. 
Jeaumarchais,  115,  123. 
ieaumont,  164. 
Beecher,    Henry    Ward,    126, 

Beecher,  Mrs.    Henry  Ward, 

178. 

ientley's  Miscellany,  87. 
Granger,  24. 
Jernard,  94. 
Jerryer,  17. 
3ichat,  192. 
Bigincourt,  14- 
Bird,  106. 

Blessington,  Countess  of,  193. 
Blondel,  18. 
Bocage,  Mme.  du,  56. 
Bosc,  Du,  25. 
Boucicault,  197. 
Bouflers,  82. 
Bourget,  199. 
Bovee,  63,  155. 
Boyesen,  193. 
Browne,  16,  18,  26,  36,  46,  62, 

68,  73,  83,  loo,  116,  137,  156, 

171. 
Browning,   Elizabeth    Barrett, 

82. 

Browning,  Robert,  43. 
Bruis,  196. 
Buckle,  115. 
Budgell,  112. 
Bulwer-Lytton,  23,  80,  84,  132, 

>53. '77.  '95- 
Burger,  45. 
Burns,  no,  156. 
Butler,  Benjamin  F.,  198. 
Butler,  Frances  Anne  Kemble, 

1 06. 

Butler,  Samuel,  18. 
Buxton,  34. 
Byron,  32,  82, 145, 162, 186, 188. 


204 


INDEX  OF  AUTHORS. 


c. 

Emerson,  12,  22,  26,  34,  45,  55, 

Calderon,  46,  gi. 
Campbell,  44,  54. 
Canabis,  200. 
Cantel,  138. 
Cardan,  24. 

77,80,  81,  92,  114,  125,  127, 
133,  156.  '57.  167,  171,  177. 
Epictetus,  161. 
Euripides,  47,  73,  102,111,  122, 
124,  132,  144,  154,  156,  165, 

infi 

Catullus,  148. 
Cervantes,  105,  130,  144,    152, 

190. 

Eusden,  157. 
Evans,  64. 

156,  183,  193,  197. 

Chamfort,  164. 

Channing,  37,  96,  142,  153,  163, 

F. 

174,  177,  186. 
Chateaubriand,  104. 
Chatterton,  172. 
Chenier,  146. 

Farquhar,  116,  122,  127. 
Fee,  Mme   C^cile,  91. 
Feuillet,  107,  173,  199. 

Cherbuliez,  195,  199. 
Chesterfield,  65,  102,  113,  127, 
161,  165,  175. 
Chevalier,  133. 
Chillon,  182. 
Christina,  Queen,  24. 
Clifford,  13,  97,  104,  166. 
Cobbett,  74. 
Coleridge,  162. 
Colton,  93,  101,  166. 
Commerseron,  43. 

Finod,  De,  43,  73,  90,  95,  143. 
Flemming,  Paul,  47. 
Fontaines,  Mme.  de,  164. 
Fontanelle,  15,  122,  196. 
Fontenelle,  56. 
Foster,  132. 
Fourier,  47. 
Francis,  36. 
Francis  I.,  48. 
Fuller,  24. 

Comte,  132. 

Congreve,  15,  121,  163. 

. 

Cornwall,  83. 

Gautier,  12,  134. 

Curtis,  146,  163. 

Gavarni,  193. 

Gay,  94,  187. 

Genlis,  Mme  de,  63,  123. 

. 

Geoffrin,  Mme.,  120. 

Deffand,  Mme.  du,  67,  147. 

Girard,  nz. 

Delatouche,  167. 

Girardin,  fimile  de,  47,  63. 

Delvau,  195. 

Girardin,  Mme.  de,  143. 

Demoustier,  134. 

Gladstone,  198. 

Desnoyers,  52,  137,  185,  200. 

Glanvill,  16. 

Dickens,  121,  143. 

Gleim,  52. 

Diderot,  32,  95. 

Goethe,  24,  54,  57,  84,  95,  106, 

Dorat,  183. 

"3,  IS'- 

Dryden,  17. 

Goldsmith,  64,  96,  100,  192. 

Dubay,  45,  103,  115. 

Grabbe,  47. 

Duclos,  146,  1  66. 

Granville,  35. 

Dumas,  17,  193,  195,  196 

Gue'rin,    Eugenie    de,  67,    68, 

Dupuy,  14,  71,  74,  84,  105,  133, 

124. 

'5'i  '85 

Guyard,  61,  121. 

Guyon,  Abbe",  78. 

E. 

Eliot,  is,  21,  27,  32,  45,  ss,  58, 

H. 

67,  80,  92,  104,  115,  124,  125, 

Haliburton,  61,  101. 

>35.  '43i  148,  iS4!  «75.  "83. 

Hall,  161 

INDEX  OP  AUTHORS. 


205 


Halle,  106. 

Hardy,  194. 

Hargrave,  151. 

Harleville,  152. 

Hawthorne,  163. 

Hazlitt,  52,  85. 

Heine,  14,  103,  198. 

Hermes,  75. 

Hesiod,  45,  56,  78. 

Hipponax,  66. 

Holland,  126,  162. 

Holmes,  n,  16,  23.  26,  28,  32, 
36,  44,  46,  S3.  56,  63,  66,  72, 
84,90,  93,  96,  104,  in,  113, 
122,  124,  134,  145,  148,  153, 
'57,  '63,  164,  166,  167,  172, 
174,  176,  182,  183,  186,  187, 
192. 

Homer,  126. 

Houdetot,  Comtesse  d',  35. 

Houelle',  102. 

Houssaye,  25,  51,  72,  104,  194. 

Howe,  Julia  Ward,  172. 

Howell,  171. 

Howells,  125. 

Hughes,  137. 

Hugo,  16,35,  42>  1671  "74 

Hunt,  18,  23,  57,  58,  74,  91, 
107,  117,  142,  165,  173. 

I. 

Irving,  12,  25,  37,  43,  95,  131, 
>34,  i4'<  158,  162,  184. 

J- 

Jameson,  Mrs.  Anna,  no,  168 
Jerrold,  104,  158. 
Johnson,  16,  45,  55,  57,  67,  91, 
no,    136,  138,  147,  157,  166, 
176,  185. 

Johnston,  155,  172. 
fonson,  65,  66. 
oubert,  34,  57,  196. 
"ouy,  86. 
uvenalis,  41,  91. 

K. 

Karr.  24,  66,  72,   90,  97,   131. 

134,  142,  152,  181. 
Keats,  37,  86. 
Kinkel,  46. 


La  Beaumelle,  42. 

Laboulaye,  34. 

La  Bretonne,  62,  ibi. 

La  Bruyere,    54,   83,  86,    143, 

"45.  "54,  "65,  171,  176,  185. 
La  Chaussee,  130 . 
Laclos,  83,  157. 
Lacretelle,  103. 
Lafontaine,  102. 
Lamartine.  25,  175. 
Lamb,  38,  75,  96,  97,  131. 
Lambert,  91. 
Lamennais,  65,  107. 
Landdomes,  Lord,  192. 
Landon,  24. 
Lander,  94,  105. 
La  Rochefoucauld,  44,  61,  106, 

112,  141,  144,  155,  167,  173, 

185. 
Latena,  42,  65,  77,   112,  132, 

"55- 

Lavater,  82. 
Lecky,  15,  21,  32,44,  55,  66,  78, 

92,  103,  125,  147,  177. 
Legouv^,  27,  7'.  > 55- 
Le  Mesle,  135,  136. 
Lemontey,  46,  130,  144. 
Lenclos,  Ninon  de,  25,  36,  92, 

106,  in,  126. 
Lesage,  81,  176. 
Lespinasse,  Mile,  de,  36. 
Lessing,  28,  73. 
Ligne,  Prince  de,  182,  198. 
Limayrac,  58. 
Lingre'e,  113,  124. 
Livius,  15,  42,  57,  112. 
Longfellow,  194. 
Lowell,  28. 
Luther,  25,  35,  200. 
Lyttleton,  90,  155. 

M. 

Macaulay,  43,  136. 
Mackay,  42. 
Maistre,  181. 
Malherbe,  74,  126. 
Mannu,  195,  198,  200. 
Marshal,  47. 
Marivaux,  62. 
Marmontel,  181. 
Marston,  72. 


206 


INDEX  OP  AUTHORS. 


Martin,  75,  96,  102,  153- 

Meilhan,  101. 

Menander,  53,  81,  123,  134. 

Mercier,  Alfred,  77. 

Mercier,  Louis  Sebastien,  53. 

MfW,  173. 

Me'rime'e,  198. 

Mdzeray,  94. 

Mezieres,  193. 

Michelet,  34,  82,  106,  132,  136, 

164,  178. 

Milton,  14,  61,  123. 
Mirabeau,  54. 
Mitchell,   13.    18,  46,  76.  102, 

122,  151,  175,  183. 
Montagu,  189. 
Montaigne,  23,  31,  57,  76. 
Montaran,  Mme.  de,  134. 
Montesquieu,  105,  185. 
Montholon,  25. 
Moore,  13,  41,  51,  81,  131,  183, 

187. 

More,  68. 
Morton,  28,  38,  45,  48,  68,  97, 

102,  107,  113,  127,  137.  '94» 

197,  199. 
Motteville,  93. 
Miiller,  22. 
Musset,  De,  126,  198. 

N. 

Napoleon  I.,  97. 
Necker,  Mme.,  71,  15:- 
Newton,  82. 
Nibelungenlied,  135. 
Nodier,  57. 

o. 

Oldmixon,  120. 

Ossoli,  Margaret  Fuller,  199. 

Otway,  26,  74. 

Ouida,  35,  173,  189. 

P. 

Parfait,  67. 
Pascal,  161. 
Peabody,  101. 
Petit-Senn,  87. 
Pigault-Lebrun,  97. 
Plautus,  13,  16,  73,  106,  146. 


'oincelot,  77,  117,  152. 
"e,  35,  47,  74,  77,  146  184. 

'roverb,  n,  22,  31,  34,  35,  37, 
46,  51,  53,  62,  63,  72,  80,  86, 
92,  93,  105,  no,  113,  122, 123, 
124,  125,  133,  135,  136,  141, 
145,  147,  148,  154,  156,  158, 
162,  164,  166,  168,  173,  174, 
i?6.  '77,  178,  185,  186,  194, 
196,  198. 

R. 

Raisson,  124. 

Raleigh,  44,  68. 

Randolph,  76. 

Reinmar,  154. 

Ricard,   26,   28,   61,    116,   123, 

141,  162. 
Richter,  27,  33,  65,  80,  90,  HI, 

123,  132,  163,  174,  181. 
Rieux,  Mme.  de,  123,  165. 
Rivarol,  66. 
Rochebrune,  91,  105,  HI,  161, 

181. 

Rochepedre,  71,  145,  156,  174. 
Romieu,  Marie  de,  87. 
Rotrou,  125. 
Rousseau,  52,  75,  84,  90,  101, 

126,  145,  195. 
Ruffini,  75. 
Ruskin,  23,  51,  54,  56.  85,  101, 

in,  131,  176,  178,  186,  188, 

195. 

S. 

Sainte-Beuve,  18. 

Saint-Evremond,  16,  144,  154. 

Saint-Foix,  13,  112. 

Saint-Prosper,  85. 

Saint  Jerome,  82. 

Saint  Thomas,  130. 

Salm,  Mme.  de,  32,  81. 

Sand,  52,  199. 

Saturday  Review,  1 17. 

Saville,  188. 

Schefer,  197. 

Schiller,  31,  41,  62,  114,  154. 

Schreiner,  48. 

Scuderi,  Mile,  de,  182. 

Second,  161. 

Segur,  62. 


INDEX  OP  AUTHORS. 


207 


Shakespeare.  12,  17,  37,  37,  42, 
53,71,83,86,94,95,  115,  121, 

122,    141,    144,    162,    l8l,    182, 
184. 

Sheldon,  15,  22,  28,  41,  52,  62, 

73,83, 100,  107,  1 16,  137,  155, 

172. 

Shelley,  51. 
Sheridan,  n,  117. 
Sigma,  66. 
Simonides,  116. 
Smiles,  144. 

Smith,  Dr.  Walter,  54,  75. 
Smith,  Sydney,  64,  72,  96,  186, 

188. 

Solomon,  116. 
Sophocles,  52. 
Southey,  112. 
Spenser,  22. 

Stae'l,  Mme.  de,  46,  76,  85,  133. 
Steele,  24,  S3.  72. 77,  87,  94.  "2°. 

«3.  »33>  '3.6.  165. 
Stoddard,  Elizabeth,  173. 
Stoddard,  Richard  Henry,  23. 
Sue,  72. 

Swift,  56,  103,  114,  135,  168. 
Syrus,  13,  181. 

T. 

Tacitus,  43,  «86. 
Talleyrand,  199. 
Talmud,  55. 
Tasso,  61,  76. 
Taylor,  31,  64. 


Tennyson,  47,  153,  184. 

Terentius,  31,  84. 

Thackeray,  33,  38,  54,  85,  114, 

'37.  '38,  i55i  l64»  '72- 
Thomas,  33. 
Tobin,  14. 
Todd,  130. 
Tolstoi,  22, 33,  37, 1 10,  120,  131, 

153,  163,  186. 
Tuke,  133. 

V. 

Valois,  Marguerite  de,  53,  64, 

81,  142. 
Vanbrugh,  93. 
Varennes,  27,  31,  73,  146. 
Viaud,  77. 
Virgilius,  34. 
Voltaire,  12,  86,  126. 

W. 

Wallace,  142. 

Waller,  25. 

Warner,  38. 

Weiss,  107,  192,  194,  196. 

Whately,  33,  95. 

Wieland,  81. 

Willis,  35,  189. 

Winkelmann,  147. 

Y. 

Young,  14,  32,68,  187. 


INDEX   OF  SUBJECTS. 


A. 

Action,  81,  125,  144. 
Affection,  -s,  12,  23,  24,  33,  37, 

45.  54,  64.  77,  80,    114,  124, 

"5.  '43|  «44i  "55.  '59.   '62, 

168,  197. 

Age,  16,  56,  61,  106,  133,  161. 
Ambition, -s,  55,  147,  162. 
Amendment  ,42,  148. 
Angel,  -s,  12, 15,  16,  53,  54,  75. 

134,  166,  189. 
Anger,  85,  182. 
Appetite,  48,  181. 
Apple,  15,  48,  198. 
Argument, -s,  112,  188. 
Art,  -s,  22,  95,  147,  191. 
Artist, -s,  56,  74 
Attraction,  -s,  34,  84,  152. 
Audacity,  81,  97,  124,  136,  182. 
Author,  -s,  84. 

B. 

Bad,  45,  176,  199. 

Beiutiful,  n,  74,  86,  97,  no, 
121,  126,  136,  154,  163,  198. 

Beauty,  14,  18,  28,  35,  37,  38, 
54,  55.  57.  58,  62,  67,  72,  74, 
81,  92,  117,  125, 130,  134,  138, 
147,  148,  151,  161,  165,  173, 
184,  187,  194,  196. 

Beginning,  -s,  25,  198. 

Benevolence,  64,  103. 

Bereave,  -ment,  23,  172. 

Best,  ii,  41,  43. 

Bird, -s,  20,  131,  172. 

Bitter, -ness,  27,  32,47. 
.  Blush, -es, -ing,  19,  31,  33,  53, 
137,  162. 

Body, -ics,  57,  133. 

Bold,  -ness,  25,  103. 


Bond,  -age,  47,  51. 
Book, -s,  13,  49,  61,  66,  90. 
Brains,  23,  82,  90,  145,  172. 
Brave,  -ery,  55,  136,  174. 
Breast,  -s,  81,  162, 184,  200. 
Breath,  13,  77. 
Brilliancy,  -iant,  81,  93. 
Brute,  -s,  40,  74. 

C. 

Care,-s,  23,94,  174. 
Cause, -s,  47,  91,  154. 
Change,  -ful,  34,  43,  177. 
Character,  -s,  34, 35,  65, 96, 103, 

143,  149,  162,  167,  169,  186, 

188,  198. 

Charity,  -ies,  71,  155. 
Charm, -s,  84,  116,  173,  193. 
Chaste,  -tity,  54,  75. 
Child, -dren,  21,  24,  36,  42,  64, 

71,97,  loo,  113,  120,  122,  125, 

138,  189. 

Civilization,  133,  146. 
Cold,  -ness,  12,  42,  69,  92. 
Color,  143,  192. 

Companion, -s,  13,  15,  141,  202. 
Complain, -ts,  18,  31,  33,  124. 
Compliment,  -s,  107,  141. 
Compromise,  -s,  56, 66. 
Conceal,  -ment,  27,  93,  114. 
Conceit, -s,  56,  186. 
Condemnation,  125,  186. 
Conduct,  112,  143. 
Confidence,  52,  135,  152. 
Conquest,  -s,  71,  158. 
Consecration,  62,  121. 
Considerate,  115,  166. 
Consolation,  134,  141,  142,  156, 

192. 
Console,  24,  48. 


2IO 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


Constancy,  14,  194. 
Contradiction,  -s,  34,  37,  47. 
Conversation,  53,  81,  89. 
Coquetry,  145,  146,  196. 
Coquette,  14,  23,  35,  42,  43,  56, 

63,  7°.  77.  85,  87,  94.  too.  105, 

117,  120,  144,  148,  165,   175, 

185,  187. 
Costume,  73,  83. 
Counsel, -s,  17,  46,  91,  96,  105, 

123,  M3- 

Courage,  145,  133.  163. 
Coward,  -ice,  14,  91 
Coxcomb,  -s,  81,  94. 
Create,  -tion,  14,  126. 
Creature, -s,  15,  22,  54,  57,  118, 

121. 

Crone,  13,  53,  55. 
Crown,  -s,  21,  80,  93,  116. 
Cry,  -ing,  24,  32,  too. 
Culture,  15,  i8g,  191. 
Cunning,  45,  63,  147,  155. 
Cure,  57,  103,  107,  113. 
Curiosity,  66,  174. 
Custom,  -s,  49,  72. 

D. 

Danger,  55,  145. 
Daughter,  -s,  15,  83,  131. 
Dead,  death,  13,  35,  66,  77,  183, 

194. 

Dear,  91,  145. 
Deceit,  16,  26,  45,  53,  67,  86, 

104,  122,  146,  156. 
Deceive,  -d,  26,  27,  53,  87. 
Defect,  -s,  63,  67,  146. 
Defence,  38,  101,  135. 
Degrade,  -ation,  37,  72,  186. 
Deliberate,  -ation,  12,  53,  no, 

i75- 
Delicate, -cy,  42,  44,  123,  124, 

152. 
Delight,-ed,  15,  45.  5^.  56«  68, 

136,  167,  183. 
Dependence,  50,  66,  159. 
Desire,  52,  80,  130,  155. 
Desultory,  -iness,  21,  57. 
Destiny,  62,  172. 
Devil,  12,  16,  22,  44,  53,  72,  73, 

113,  198. 
Devotion,  13,  25,  32,  44,  52,  63, 

68.  136.  i53>  '54,  168,  199. 
Discreet,  -tion,  25,  174. 


Dissimulation,  62,  68,  115. 

Divine,  34,  174,  175,  187. 

Divinity,  63,  95,  131. 

Divorce,  -d,  151. 

Dream, -s,  22,  85. 

Dress,  15,  25,  41,  45,  73,  84,  85, 

105,  120,  122,  154,  173. 

Drink, -ing,  32,  35. 
Duties, -y,  u,  23,  100,  196. 

E. 

Eat,  -ing,  35,  96. 

Education,  12,  15,  16,  23,   34, 

68,  132,  163,  188,  190. 
Elegance,  15,  134. 
Eloquence,  25,  31,  76,  178. 
Emotion,  -s,  25,  114,  167,  194. 
Endure,  -ance,  51,  66,  95. 
Enemy,  66,  166. 
Envy,  67,  78. 
Esteem,  84,  103,  157,  196. 
Eve,  15, 16,  48,  55, 155, 168, 173. 
Evil,  -s,  16,  26,  45,  64,  68,  73, 

81,  94,  102,  126,  156,  182. 
Excuse,  28,  39. 
Experience,  21,  36,  67,  85,  112, 

149. 
Eye,  -s,  40,  52,  57,  63,  67,  105, 

113,  117,  123,  141,  146,  156, 

164,  165,  183,  184,  189. 

F. 
Face,-s,  27,  28,  51,  66,  76,  92, 

'37.  152.  '57.  '83,  192. 
Faith,  39,  48,  54,   55,  62,  74, 

112,  115,  2OI. 

Faithful,  -ness,  69,  201. 

Fancy,  22,  48,  198. 

Fashion, -s,  36,  38,  57,  67,  in, 

117. 
Fault,  -s,  17, 68,  77,  84, 112, 123, 

its. 

Fear,  -s,  53,  153,  154.' 
Feeling,  -s,  18,  71, 102, 114, 124. 
Fickle,  -ness,  34,  43. 
Fire, -s,  25,  26,  33,  35,  56,  66, 

124,  130,  136. 
Flattery,  24,  32,   57,   62,   102, 

120,  132,  146,  157,  161,  163, 

'65,  175- 

Flirt,  -s,  13,  46,  102,  118,  151. 
Flower,  -s,  47,  48,  65,  102,  122, 

161,  172,  185,  188. 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


211 


Folly,  -ies,  13,  40,  84,  93,  118. 
Fool,  -s,  ii,  35,  61,  67,94,  113, 

Heart,  -s,  13,  16,  17,  18,  23,  25, 
26,  47,  52,  54,  58,  65,  66,  68, 

"7.  >33i   147.  '55.  '57.  "65, 

72,  75.  76,  82,  84,  87,  90,  92, 

199. 

94,96,  101,  in,  115,  117,  151, 

Force,  -s,  49,  83,  112. 

'57.  '63.  '74.  183.  187,  192, 

Forget,  61,  195. 

199,  2OI. 

Forgive,  -ness,  46,  61,  76,   81, 

Heaven,  12,  15,  31,  66,  76,  130, 

120,  126,  166. 

151,  188,  193. 

Forsake,  -en,  54,  142. 

Hell,  15,  16,  61,  78,  83,  156. 

Fortitude,  158,  183. 

Heroine,  96,  107,  195. 

Fortune,  132,  158,  164. 

History,  23,  26,  67,  124,  162. 

Fountain,  51,  86. 

Homage,  125,  185,  199. 

Frailty,  27,  42. 

Home,  43,  97,  131,  151,  171. 

Friend,  -s,  34,  53,  90,  143,  146. 

Honest,  14,  28,  59,  66,  81,  93. 

Friendship,  -s,  17,24,30,  33,  54, 

Honor,  14,31,  35,  56,  91,  no, 

94,   112,  124,   147,  '481    156, 

142,  200. 

157,  162,  164,  171,  193,  198. 

Hope,  12,  54,  76,  81,  120,  142, 

143,  166,  168. 

House,  -s,  43,  66. 

. 

Humility,  55,  66,  93. 

Gallantry,  52,  66,  86. 

Husband,  21,  23,  24,  38,  52,  56, 

Garden,  -s,  16,  31,  44,  48,  137. 

61,  64,  72,  84,92,  97,  112,  i2i, 

Generosity,  43,  69,  76. 

125,  130,  134,  154,  165,  176, 

Genius,  21,  35,66,  155,175,  194, 

200. 

199. 

Gentleness,  53,  55,  12:,  168. 

I. 

Gift,  -s,  95,  130. 

Girl,  -s,  22,  41,  58,  61,  63,  72, 

Ideal,  -ize,  44,  92,  131,  177. 

80,  88,  90,  94,  103,  124,  137, 

Idea,  -s,  47,  141,  187. 

147,  161. 

Idol,  -s,  58,  154,  172. 

Give,  12,  71. 

Imagine,   -ation,  72,  83,    104, 

God,  ii,  12,  14,  31,  35,  71,  107, 
121,  126,  130,  138,  142,  143, 
'75.  '95.  196,  197.  *»• 
Goddess,  -es,  57,  64. 

147. 
Impudent,  -ence,  17,  56. 
Inconstancy,  68,  137. 
Indifference,  17,  23,  42,    157, 

Good,  -ness,  13,  16,  37,  45,  57, 
59»  77,  86,  97,  102,  104,  107, 

195. 
Injuries,  -y,  61,  112. 

1  16,  126,  133,  136,  148,  167, 
'74i  176,  188,  197,  199. 
Govern,  57,  117,  171. 
Grace,  -s,  81,  104,  152,  187. 
Great,  -ness,  23,  25,  64,  78. 

Injustice,  24,  72. 
Insight,  34,  47,  65,  127,  177- 
Intellect,  -s,  40,  56,  104,  144. 
Intelligence,  33,  78,  86. 
Intuitive,  -ness,  21,  34,  58,  62. 

Grief,  63,  136,  184. 

Invention,  50,  56, 

Guard,  -ian,  18,  95,  123,  197. 

J- 

H. 

Hand,  -s,  16,  37,  115,  143. 

Joy,  -s,  22,  81,  112,  154. 
Judgment,  73,  92,  162. 
Justice,  66,  76. 

Handsome,  16,  93,  137. 

Happiness,  27,  41,  61,  68,  85, 

K. 

90,  127,  132,  154,  186. 

Happy,  22,  37,  64,  67,  95,  124. 
Hate,  33,  42,  46,  94,  181,  194. 

Key,  14,  18. 
Kind,  -ness,  14,  141,  181. 

212 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


Kiss,  -ing,  76,  161. 
Knowledge,  22,  41,  93,  96,  144, 
MS.  JSQi  '74,  '86,  188. 


Lady,  -ies,  14,  23,  26,  53,  55, 

85,    95,   "i,    »23>   '3z>   135. 

148,  187. 
Laugh,  -ing,  31,  101,  122,  164, 

165,175. 

Laughter,  57,  154. 
Life,  46,  80,  85,  95,  181,  184, 

187,  194. 
Lip,  -s,  77,  195. 
Lock,  -s,  18,  46. 
Look,  -s,    13,   17,   22,   45,   72, 

128,  181,  188. 
Lot,  72,  154. 
Love,  n,  15,  17,  18,  19,  24,  25, 

26,  27,  32,  36,  45,  46,  54,  55, 

63,  65,  74,  81,82,  85,  93,  95, 

100,     104,    107,    III,    121,  123, 
13°,    '37,    >42,    H4,    152.    '64, 

165,  172,  181,  187,  192,  200. 
Loveliness,  1 8,  51,  74,  173. 
Lover,  -s,  32,  53,  81,  82,  92, 

107,  124,  134,  146,  148,  155, 

157.  l67,  '71- 

M. 

Maiden,  -s,  42,  52,  63, 145, 178, 

187,  199. 
Manners,  78,  106,  114,  177,  181, 

185. 

Mannish,  17,  26,  52. 
Marriage,  21,  26,  34,  46,47,  61, 

66,  72,  76,  78,  81,  87,  90,  96, 

100,  102,  107,  123,  132,  145, 

154,  164,  172,  189. 
Memory,  51,  106,  115- 
Mercy,  28,  46,  66,  80. 
Merit,  67,  136. 
Messiah,  n,  194. 
Mind,  -s,  57,  83,  117,  126,  132, 

i5'- 

Miracle,  34,  7',  75- 
Mischief,  36,  44,  88,  106,  134. 
Misery,  16,  91,  154,  178. 
Misfortune,  105,  122,  153,  174, 

193- 

Mistake,  -s,  21,  74,  86,  181. 
Mistress,  13,  24,  91, 95,  156. 


Modesty,  62,  66,  101,  113,121, 
122,  125,  130,  135,  144,  158, 
168,  176,  178. 

Moral,  -s,  47,  132,  134,  185. 

Mother,  -s,  17,  18,  54,  57,  92, 
95.  96.  97i  !°6i  "5.  131,  138, 
'53,  '65,  166,  175,  192,  196, 
197,  198. 

Music,  56,  125,  175,  181,  192. 

Mystery,  29,  38. 

N. 

Nature,  14,  36,  51,  61,  71,  72, 
73,  86,  107,  no,  113, 115,  131, 
132,  152,  163,  173,  182,  183, 
185. 

Need,  80,  148. 

Neglect,  100,  189. 

Noble,  -est,  28,  86,  no. 

o. 

Obey,  -ing,  86,  132,  164. 
Old,  55,  102,  133,  174. 
Opinion,  -s,  95,  115,  129. 
Ornament,  -s,  15,  61,  105,  144, 
159)  181. 

P. 

Paradise,  73,  83,  116, 156. 
Passion,  -s,  26,  36, 42,  55, 65, 67, 

68,  73,  80,  82,  96,  101,  112, 

114,  146,  148,  171,  176. 
Patience,  64,  93. 
Peace,  35,  43,  5'i  86. 
Perfect, -ion,  28,  52,  no,  117, 

198. 

Persuade,  76,  82. 
Philosopher,  -s,  n,  48,  96. 
Pity,  16,  120,  200. 
Plaything,  -s,  16,  109. 
Please,  -ant,  28,  45,  52,  53,  62, 

66,   102,   120,  126,   145,   147, 

161,  181,  194. 
Pleasure,  -s,  33,  40,  52,  71,  84, 

87,   126,  133,   135,  176,   184, 

196. 

Plot,  -ting,  n,  24. 
Poet,  -s,  22,  91,  166. 
Poetry,  151,  172. 
Poor,  97,  161. 
Position,  52,  87,  92,  108. 
Possess,  -ions,  31, 116, 126, 162. 


INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


2I3 


Power,  14,  24,  28,  35,  41,  56, 
62,  76,  115, I26>  I27i  '33.  «38, 
'55.  '75.  '84,  185,  194. 

Praise,  65,  122,  166,  167,  171, 
192. 

Prayer,  -s,  26,  34,  55,  97,  166. 

Prefer,  -ence,  25,  26. 

Pretty,  17,  43,  45.  ?8,  86,  144, 
174. 

Priest,  -s,  45,  46,  127. 

Principle,  -s,  21,  96,  146. 

Promise,  -s,  74,  84,  120. 

Protect,  -ion,  37,  121,  163, 165. 

Pride,  -s,  44,  56,  65,  76,  124, 
M3-  . 

Pure,  -ity,  68, 121, 126,  131, 163. 

Q- 

8ueen,  29,  90,  96,  145. 
uick,  -ness,  115,  156. 

R. 

Rank,  15,  43,  75.  «65- 

Reading,  93,  in. 

Reason,  -ing,  12,  16,  21,  33,  42, 

65.  72,  85,  115,  128. 
Religion,  -lous,  27,  34,  47,  64, 

'53.  167.  l85>  20°- 
Remembrance,  17,  82, 106,  189. 
Repent,  -ance,  17,  77. 
Reputation,  56,  61,  91,  144. 
Resistance,  36,  93. 
Respect,  38,  75,  156,  196. 
Reveal,  -ation,  n,  28,  137. 
Revenge,  24,  26. 
Reward,  27,  166. 
Right,  -s,  52,  55,  164. 
Rival,  -ry,  85,  171. 
Romance,  -s,  12,64. 
Rose,  -s,  23,  31,  74,  122,  145. 
Royal,  45,  156. 

Ruin,  -s,  18,  38,  43,  51,  65,  106. 
Rule,  -s,  51,  56,  86,  147,  164. 

S. 

Sacrifice,  13,  23,  28,  46,  65,  146, 

163. 

Say,  62,  82,  94. 
Scorn,  -ed,  15,  17,  34. 
Secret,  -s,  41,  62,  101, 102,  123, 

»7.  MS,  177- 


Seduce, -s,  84,   116,    120,    194, 

195- 

See,  1 15,  200. 
Self-denial,  46,  79,  101. 
Self-love,  100,  no,  192. 
Self-reliance,  66,  168. 
Selfish,  -ness,  38,  142. 
Sense,  44,  85,  117,  127,  163,  171. 
Sensibility,   82,   136,   147,  176, 

193,- 
Sentiment,  -al,  12,  16,  46,  So, 

86,  102,  114,  157. 
Servitude,  42,  86,  163. 

Sex,  71,  114,  133,  152,  171,  188, 

195.  197- 
Shame,  42,  141. 
Sigh,  -s,  22,  24,  44,  162. 
Silence,  31,  in,  136,  144,  178, 

185. 

Sin,  -s,  15,  66,  69,  75,  84. 
Slave,  -s,  66,  67,  116,  163. 
Smile,  -s,  24,  44,  54,  61,  104, 

112,  115,  137. 
Society,  31,  33,  81,  86,  90,  93, 

106,  114,  152,  172,  185,  191. 
Solitude,  31,  44,  142. 
Song,  154,  164,  175. 
Sorrow,  -s,  48,  112,  135,  141. 
Soul,  -s,  13,  18,  19,  36,  37,  44, 

46.  57>  77.  I".   '33.  '56.  168, 

'75- 
Speech,  25,  26,  37,  53,61,  135, 

137- 

Spirit,  -s,  85,  96,  104,  131. 
Spite,  21,  78,  147,  162. 
Strength,  28,  38,  67,  132,  144, 

166,  188,  201. 
Suffering,  -s,   32,   57,  63,   91, 

103,  178.  _ 
Superior,  -ity,  69,  78,  82,  107, 

136. 
Sympathy,  12,  13,  37,  68,  114, 

M4,  155.  177.  »79- 

T. 

Talk,  -ing,  37,  56,  176,  196. 

Teach,  -er,  18,  95. 

Tear, -s,  27,   68,   83,  92,    112, 

144,  154,  184,  188. 
Temptation,  65,  94. 
Tenderness,  13,  26,  42,  65,  68, 

87,  105,  161,  200. 
Terror,  45,  113,  136. 


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INDEX  OF  SUBJECTS. 


Thought,  -s,  144,  192. 
Tongue,  47,  71,  76,  78,  83,  94, 

'24,  '56- 

Trial,  -s,  33,  80,  142. 
Trifles,  33,  57,  74,  114. 
Trouble, -s,  80,  124. 
Trust,  -s,  35,  39,  47,  51,  61,  62, 

68,  112,  120,  171. 
Truth,  -s,  22,  32,  62,  74,  HI, 

124,  125,  162,  201. 

u. 

Ugliness,  14,  17,  60,  134,  175. 
Understand,  -ing,  77,  94,    101, 

122,  128. 

V. 

Valor,  too,  141. 

Vanity,  28,  44,  47,  65,  77,  82, 
84,  124,  127,  141,  147,  1 66, 

175,  196. 

Venom,  HI,  117,  198. 
Venus,  27,  36,  116,  122,  167. 
Vice,  -s,  47,  67,  149,  176. 
Virgin,  -s,  44,  52,   62,   78,  96, 

177. 

Virtue, -s,  12,  18,  25,  34,  36,  44, 
4<>>  47,  56,  61,  64,  76,  79,  82, 
91,  103,  104,  106,  113,  121, 

123,  125,  141,  152,  158,  163, 

176,  181,  196. 

Virtuous,  14,  18,  42,  65,  72,  73, 
106,  115,  n6,  143,  155,  182, 
183,197. 

Voice,  12,  19,  53,  152,  183. 

Voluptuous,  42,  54. 


W. 

War,  34,  51,  86,  178. 

Waste,  12,  57. 

Weak,  -ness,  67,  94,  136,    138, 

"52.  '59- 

Weep,  -ing,  31,  122,  162. 

Widow,  -s,  27,  82,  87,  104,  134, 
135,  142,  143,  166. 

Wife,  -ves,  13,  24,  31,  34,  3S>  36, 
38,  45,  52,  55,  56,  62,  64,  71, 
80,  81,  88,  93,  96,  102,  103, 
105,  106,  H2,  121,  130,  134, 
141,  147,  152,  153,  168,  171, 
184,  186,  193,  196. 

Will,  133,  157,  173,  194- 

Wind,  35,  47,  112,  164. 

Wine,  24,  53,  86. 

Wings,  54,  165. 

Wisdom,  13,  85,  no,  117,  165. 

Wise,  25,  105,  113,  134,  142. 

Wit,  156,  167. 

Woe,-s,  17,  138. 

Womanhood,  45,  143,  199. 

Wonder,  13,  75,  179. 

Words,  101,  no,  123,  192. 

Work,  54,  61,  74,  no,  157. 

World,  47,  54,  57,  68,  75,  141, 
151,  161,  162,  176,  183,  192. 

Worship,  29,  153,  154. 

Writing,  91,  141,  186,  189. 

Y. 

Young,  45,  55,  87,  127,  144. 
Youth,  22,  51,  52,  58,  95,  131, 
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